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stood up for

stood up for is the simple past and past participle of stand up for.

Meaning of stand up for

Verb

stand up for (third-person singular simple present stands up for, present participle standing up for, simple past and past participle stood up for)

  1. (transitive) To speak or act in support or defense of (a person, a cause, a belief, or the like).
    • She stood up for me when no one else would, and I've never forgotten it.
    Synonyms:
    stick up for, defend

Questions about stood up for

What is stood up for the simple past and past participle of?
Stood up for is the simple past and past participle of stand up for.

Words near stood up for in the dictionary

  1. stood under
  2. stood up
  3. stood up against
  4. stood up and been counted
  5. stood up and was counted
  6. stood up for
  7. stood up on one's hind legs
  8. stood up to
  9. stood up to be counted
  10. stood up with
  11. stood upon one's terms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stood up for (page history and authors); stand up for (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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