outstandv.
/ˌaʊtˈstand/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈstænd/ 1.
a. transitive. To stand or hold out against (something); to resist to the end, to endure successfully.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > resist > maintain resistance against
to stand before ——OE
bearOE
tholec1175
sustainc1330
last1340
suffera1387
support1483
outstand1571
hold1592
to hold outa1616
ridea1649
brunt1800
to stand up to1921
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xli. 13) David..manfully outstood those assaults of temptacions.
1580 A. Munday Zelauto 68 I..hazarded my selfe to all chaunces, whatsoeuer, and hitherto I haue out stoode them.
1616 B. Jonson Sejanus ii. 377 Thou could'st out-skip my vengeance: or out-stand The power I had to crush thee into ayre.
1629 J. Gaule Distractions 165 A Lion will outstand a Man.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 37 Sure never to outstand the first Assault.
1778 R. Cumberland Battle of Hastings iii. i. 54 My father Reigns tho' a subject born, and so shall Edmund, If..England's throne outstands tomorrow's storm.
1805 ‘E. de Acton’ Nuns of Desert II. 87 Who has experienced and outstood the base designs of him she loved and trusted.
1806 H. K. White Let. 25 June in Remains (1807) I. 227 Outstand the tide of ages.
1849 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Apr. 297 The Hanseatic League and the Free cities of Germany outstood the numberless dynasties which attempted to override them.
b. transitive. To maintain a view or belief in opposition to (someone); to contradict (a person) obstinately. Scottish and English regional (southern) in later use.
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the mind > language > statement > speaking against or contradiction > speak against or contradict [verb (transitive)] > maintain in opposition
outstand1658
oppugn1849
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid v. 362 Those Nurses..which were to look to the Children,..outstand it most that the Child was not hurt.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (at cited word) He wanted to have the calf for three pound ten, but I out-stood him upon that.
1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 64 She outstood me wi' that 'ere lie.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 112 He outstood me that he hadn't seen him.
1894 H. Jackson Southward Ho I. 389 Dey mounted de ride-haussesses but dess wot hed bin racked up, outstud, an stomped, an poached, but woodn't ower de rife.
2. transitive. To stand or endure longer than; to stay to or beyond the end of. to outstand one's market: to delay or waste time until (an opportunity, etc.) has passed.
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the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > outlast
to live out1535
outlast1570
outwear1579
outlive1582
supervive1586
outflourish1594
to stand out1600
outdure1611
outstanda1616
outsit1633
survive1633
endure1636
stay1639
outmeasure1646
superlast1648
outstaya1652
last1658
tarrya1662
superannuate1820
outrange1887
to see out1897
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 208 I haue out-stood my time. View more context for this quotation
1661 T. Fuller Andronicus v. i. 76 You'l never thrive if you outstand this mart.
1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels II. 458 If we out-stand the Season of Grace.
1731 G. Lillo Silvia iii. xiv. 62 Now I think you look like a Dealer in Second-hand Goods, who having outstood your Market, repents, and wou'd fain be turning the Penny at any rate.
1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless I. xvii. 207 I warrant she will change her mind one time or other.—I only wish she may not, as the old saying is, out-stand her market.
1841 T. Moore Alciphron in Poet. Wks. X. 314 Quarries upon quarries heap'd and hurl'd, To build them domes that might outstand the world.
1853 S. Colwell New Themes Protestand Clergy 310 The servant who outstands his market must starve.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xvi. 156 This simplest of all simple structures,—two upright stones and a lintel laid across,—had long outstood all later churches.
1996 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 11 Jan. 1 a Marchers in St Petersburg refused to leave until the dope peddlers..had gone away. Simply put, Wrice said later, the residents outstood the dealers.
2001 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 28 June (Features) 14 It [sc. St George's Church, Leicester] predated a rash of Victorian building and has outstood many that have since gone.
3. intransitive. To continue in existence or remain undetermined; esp. (of a sum of money, debt, etc.) to be unsettled or unpaid. Chiefly in present participle. Cf. earlier outstanding adj. 2.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > be in debt [verb (intransitive)]
owe1455
oughta1464
to be indebted1601
outstand1729
society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [adjective] > owed
duea1325
debta1340
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owing1411
debteda1425
oughting1500
outstand1729
outstanding1797
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1729 B. Franklin Modest Enq. in Selections (1987) 133 Neither can it hurt those Merchants who have great Sums out-standing in the Country.
1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal i. xviii. 131 Here is your bond for 15l...and it is very likely, to be sure, that you should leave it out-standing so long, if you had any account to set off against it!
1840 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop I. viii. 121 The amount of a certain small account which had been long outstanding.
1882 N. Amer. Rev. June 538 On 1st of July, 1878, there were outstanding of such gold certificates, $44,000,000.
1897 G. Gissing Whirlpool 54 Debt to the amount of two or three hundred was outstanding at the end of the first twelvemonth; but Sibyl manifested no alarm.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xvi–xvii Only when I become as nothing can God enter in and no difference between his life and mine remain outstanding.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 95/1 A convention with Italy, concluded in the same year, settled the frontier questions outstanding with that country.
1950 S. A. Mosk Industr. Rev. Mexico iii. xiii 262 Most of the certificates (305 million pesos) were still outstanding at the end of 1948.
2001 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 15 Jan. At least one million forms are not expected to be returned by the deadline, while the number still outstanding for the year to 5 April, 1999, is estimated at between 500,000 and 750,000.
4. intransitive. To stand out prominently, to project. Also in extended use: to be conspicuous, noteworthy, or superior.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > project or be prominent [verb (intransitive)]
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shootc1000
to come outOE
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to stand outc1330
steek?c1335
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strutc1405
to stick upa1500
issuec1515
butt1523
to stick outc1540
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to run out1565
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relish1611
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to stand offa1616
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protend1726
outstand1755
shove1850
outjut1851
extrude1852
bracket1855
to corbel out1861
to set out1892
pier1951
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Outstand, to protuberate from the main body.
1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 89 Nay thus shut mine eyes And know, quite know, by that heart's fall and rise If thou dost bury thee in clouds and when Out-standest.
1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich vi. 9 Cottages here and there out-standing bare on the mountain.
1861 E. Atherstone Israel in Egypt xv. 241 No! plain as day Outstandeth it, that his pretended god Is, veritably, witchcraft.
1900 S. Phillips Paolo & Francesca ii. 50 The foam is on his lips, The veins outstand.
1978 H. Carruth Brothers I loved you All in Coll. Shorter Poems (1992) 184 A grove of popples grayish-green, is a drabness opposite, with one stark white birch outstanding.
1988 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 16 Nov. 1 ‘We wanted a different look,’ Joyce Becker said. They got it, neighbours agree. ‘It kind of outstands here on the street,’ said Heidi Samuels.
1999 State Jrnl.-Register (Springfield) (Nexis) 13 Apr. 9 Squires..said that Merriam and other Republicans in her district would have input on the choice. ‘We'll look up and down the precinct list to see if anyone outstands,’ Merriam said.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > sail away from shore or ships
to stand off1591
to stand away1600
to bear away1614
to stand out to sea1625
outstand1866
off1882
1866 J. G. Whittier Dead Ship Harpswell 13 Many a keel shall seaward turn And many a sail outstand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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