Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of stand
The teacher stood her facing the corner.
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This morning a bloke stood next to me wearing nothing but sandals.
The flowers were stood in a vase on the table. (informal; chiefly UK/Commonwealth)
At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*stōþ
- Old Englishstōd
- Middle Englishstod
- Englishstood
From Middle English stod, from Old English stōd, from Proto-Germanic *stōþ, *stōd-, past tense of *standaną (“to stand”).
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