Source: http://www.lexipedia.com/english/stay
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 11:44:24+00:00

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n. continuing or remaining in a place or state; "they had a nice stay in Paris"; "a lengthy hospital stay"; "a four-month stay in bankruptcy court"
n. a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court"
n. the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
v. stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"
v. stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!"
v. overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"
v. stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!"
v. remain behind; "I had to stay at home and watch the children"
v. stop a judicial process; "The judge stayed the execution order"
v. hang on during a trial of endurance; "ride out the storm"
v. continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"
v. stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up"
n. a stopping; "a cessation of the thunder"
n. a state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police"
v. become less severe or strict; "The rules relaxed after the new director arrived"
v. cause to feel better; "the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation"
v. lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; "ease the pain in your legs"
v. reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership"
v. bring into an improved condition; "He reconditioned the old appliances"
v. make younger or more youthful; "The contact with his grandchildren rejuvenated him"
v. make powerless and unable to function; "The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation"
v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
v. prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
v. lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
v. to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"
v. utter in a very loud voice; "They vociferated their demands"
v. fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"
v. become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off."; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."
v. move gently or carefully; "He eased himself into the chair"
v. cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
v. come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
v. move away, as for privacy; "The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer"
v. keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project"
v. live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"
v. stay in one place and anticipate or expect something; "I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets"
v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"
v. fill with inhabitants; "populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting"
v. persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"
v. lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"
v. get worse; "Her health is declining"
v. accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
v. progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting"
v. break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked"
v. change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"
v. change residence, affiliation, or place of employment; "We moved from Idaho to Nebraska"; "The basketball player moved from one team to another"
v. go away from a place; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight"
v. transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control"
v. be or continue to be in a certain condition; "The children went hungry that day"
v. have a particular form; "the story or argument runs as follows"; "as the saying goes..."

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