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unwithstood

unwithstood adjective: unopposed, not resisted.

Adjective

unwithstood (not comparable)

  1. Unopposed, not resisted.
    • As if their own indignant earth, / Which gave the sons of England birth, / Had felt their blood upon her brow, / And shuddering with a mother's throe, / Had turned every drop of blood, / By which her face had been bedewed / To an accent unwithstood, / As if her heart had cried aloud: […]1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem. […], London: Edward Moxon […], published 1832, →OCLC, stanzas XXXV–XXXVI, pages 18–19

Origin of unwithstood

From un- + withstood.

Words that rhyme with unwithstood

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Questions about unwithstood

What does unwithstood mean?
Unwithstood means unopposed, not resisted.
What part of speech is unwithstood?
Unwithstood is an adjective.

Words near unwithstood in the dictionary

  1. unwitherable
  2. unwithered
  3. unwithering
  4. unwithheld
  5. unwithstandable
  6. unwithstood
  7. unwitness
  8. unwitnessable
  9. unwitnessed
  10. unwitnesses
  11. unwitnessing

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