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staying the distance

staying the distance is the present participle and gerund of stay the distance.

Meaning of stay the distance

Verb

stay the distance (third-person singular simple present stays the distance, present participle staying the distance, simple past and past participle stayed the distance)

  1. Synonym of stay the course.
    • He was sure his girlfriend would stay the distance with her addiction treatment.
    Synonyms:
    stay the course

Questions about staying the distance

What is staying the distance the present participle and gerund of?
Staying the distance is the present participle and gerund of stay the distance.

Words near staying the distance in the dictionary

  1. staying over
  2. staying power
  3. staying powers
  4. staying put
  5. staying the course
  6. staying the distance
  7. staying the night
  8. staying together
  9. staying tuned
  10. staying up
  11. staying up late

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Adapted from Wiktionary: staying the distance (page history and authors); stay the distance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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