withstand

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Verb[change]

Plain form
withstand

Third-person singular
withstands

Past tense
withstood

Past participle
withstood

Present participle
withstanding

  1. If something can withstand something else, it can resist it.
    Their relationship withstood the test of time.
    These houses withstood the hurricane.

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