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upstaying

upstaying is the present participle and gerund of upstay.

Meaning of upstay

Verb

upstay (third-person singular simple present upstays, present participle upstaying, simple past and past participle upstayed)

  1. (archaic) To sustain, support.
    • those two villeins, which her steps vpstayd, / When her weake feete could scarcely her sustaine, / And fading vitall powers gan to fade, / Her forward still with torture did constraine […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about upstaying

What is upstaying the present participle and gerund of?
Upstaying is the present participle and gerund of upstay.

Words near upstaying in the dictionary

  1. upstaters
  2. upstates
  3. upstats
  4. upstay
  5. upstayed
  6. upstaying
  7. upstays
  8. upsteal
  9. upstealing
  10. upsteals
  11. upstep

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