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upstays

upstays is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 upstays

What is upstays the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Upstays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upstay.

Words near upstays in the dictionary

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

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