Meaning of withstay | Babel Free

Definitions

To hold back; oppose; withstand.

transitive

Examples

“Death, careful of my learning, hath withstayed His final presence.”

“It filled the passage of the rising glade, And there withstayed the sun in dazzling sheen.”

“More interestingly the shock has sufficiently high temperatures that nuclear binding cannot withstay and matter is ejected as free protons and neutrons from the neutron star surface.”

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