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stays the distance

stays the distance is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 stays the distance

What is stays the distance the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stays the distance is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stay the distance.

Words near stays the distance in the dictionary

  1. stays on
  2. stays out
  3. stays over
  4. stays put
  5. stays the course
  6. stays the distance
  7. stays the night
  8. stays together
  9. stays tuned
  10. stays up
  11. stays up late

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stays 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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