Withstood
[wɪð'stʊd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Withstand
(imp. & p. p.) o/ Withstand.
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Examples
- To have resisted such attractions, to have withstood such tenderness! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- His regiment had performed prodigies of courage, and had withstood for a while the onset of the whole French army. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was a solemnity--a dignity--in Mr. Pickwick's manner, not to be withstood. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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