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standstill (third-person singular simple presentstands still,present participlestanding still,simple past and past participlestood still)

  1. (sometimes figurative) Tostopmoving, toremainmotionless.
    My legs were stiff because I'd beenstanding still for a long time.
    • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Joshua10:12–13:
      12 ¶ Then spake Ioshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord deliuered vp the Amorites before the children of Israel, and hee said in the sight of Israel, Sunne,stand thoustill vpon Gibeon, and thou Moone in the valley of Aialon.
      13 And the Sunnestood still, and the Moone stayed, vntill the people had auenged themselues vpō their enemies. Is not this written in the booke of Iasher? So the Sunnestood still in the midst of heauen, and hasted not to goe downe, about a whole day.
    • 2002, Robert Jonathan Tristani,A Virtual Kill, page303:
      Time seemed tostand still as an idea came to him. He could not outrun the car behind him, but he could outdrive his opponent. And the Fiat was more nimble.
  2. totolerate [withfor]
    • 1987,Roger Waters, “Home”, inRadio K.A.O.S.:
      Will you accept your second class status
      A nation of waitresses and waiters
      Will you mix their martinis
      Will youstand still for it
      Or will you take to the hills

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to stop moving
to remain motionless

Noun

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standstill (pluralstand stills)

  1. Obsolete spelling ofstandstill.

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Verb

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standstill

  1. first/third-personsingularpreterite ofstillstehen
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