stand fire (English, verb)
expansion: stand fire (third-person singular simple present stands fire, present participle standing fire, simple past and past participle stood fire)
Senses:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To put oneself in the way of an enemy's firing.
tags: idiomatic
glosses: To put oneself in a position vulnerable to rebuke or criticism
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: stands fire
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: standing fire
tags: participle
present
form: stood fire
tags: participle
past
form: stood fire
tags: past