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(v)
(transitive) To help keep from falling.
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(intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
(n)
(Northeastern US) A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”).
(transitive) To place in a high location.
A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity.
(transitive) To allow or permit without explicit approval, usually if it is perceived as negative.
(intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.
Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
An angle, outlook or point of view.
Complete immobility; a halt.
An attitude, opinion, or set of beliefs.
A point of view; a perspective.
(intransitive) To feel pain.
(transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
A small, open-air platform or enclosure for bands to play on, usually roofed.
(architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
(countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air
put into an upright position
hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright
a booth where articles are displayed for sale
To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
A thing that holds.
(transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
(transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
(intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
(transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
(intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
(transitive) To experience; to pass through a phase.
(transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
To move toward the speaker.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
(intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
(adj)
Vertical; erect.
(intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
(copulative, rather formal, followed by an adjective or a noun) begin to be; turn into (often with permanent states).
(intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
(intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
(transitive) To resist or endure (something) successfully.
(transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
(military, slang) The day on which one wakes up and travels home.
(transitive) Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
One's opinion or point of view.
(intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
(intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
The end or final point of something.
(intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
(transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case
The way a person holds and positions their body.
(figurative) Disposition or state of mind.
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.
To conclude or resolve (something):
(intransitive) To cease moving.
(intransitive) To happen or take place.
(intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
(ambitransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend.
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
(intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
(intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
(intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
The act of positioning; placement.
(transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
(intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
A place or location.
(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle.
To move swiftly.
(transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
(transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.
(transitive) To supply or substitute an equivalent with.
(transitive) To create.
(transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
(transitive) To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.
(transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
(transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
(transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
(transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
A particular point or place in physical space.