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Survive like most football grounds?
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withstand
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Word definitions for withstand in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN ability ▪ Some doubted its ability to withstand rough weather. ▪ Similarly, much depends on the armed forces' ability to withstand the cartels' attempts to penetrate and co-opt them. ▪ Democratic states, like all others, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. resist or confront with resistance; "The politician defied public opinion"; "The new material withstands even the greatest wear and tear"; "The bridge held" [syn: defy , hold , hold up ] stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something [syn: resist ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Withstand \With*stand"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Withstood ; p. pr. & vb. n. Withstanding .] [AS. wi[eth]standan. See With , prep., and Stand .] To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To resist or endure (something) successfully. 2 To oppose (something) forcefully.
Usage examples of withstand.
What the crushingly powerful four-limbed hug would have done to a human unprotected by a suit designed to withstand pressures comparable to those found at the bottom of an ocean probably did not bear thinking about, but then a human exposed without protection to the conditions required to support Affronter life would be dying in at least three excitingly different and painful ways anyway without having to worry about being crushed by a cage of leg-thick tentacles.
But the walls of the city withstood the strokes of their battering-rams: and the besiegers pitched their tents on the neighboring mountain of Jaushan.
The garrison consisted of about six thousand men, commanded by the prince of Bergue: but the besiegers carried on their works with such rapidity as they could not withstand.
Those times, having bespelled the guardsmen and grooms to look elsewhere, he had struck harder and harder blows with fist and sword to make sure the shield was strong enough to withstand a heavy physical attack.
Pikes were flying through the air, and though the ballista and their own good swords were keeping the enemy at a respectful distance, there was none among them who believed that they could for long withstand the superior numbers and the bettor equipment of their adversaries.
Evidently it did not open on outer air, yet it was built as if to withstand the battering of mangonels and rams.
Is it strange, when woman has thus exhausted her energies, when her body trembles with fatigue and her mind is agitated with responsibilities, that the menses capriciously return, or the uterus is unable to withstand congestion, and capillary hemorrhage becomes excessive?
Like most close-support helicopters, the Werewolf was well protected against ground attack, the armoured shield round the cockpit designed to withstand 20 millimetre cannon strikes.
Like an outclassed warrior seeking only to hold his foe at bay as long as he could, he withstood or beat aside wizardry that would have devastated a stronger but less purposeful magician.
She resented being set aside, shut off from his presence, then brought out like some fragile porcelain doll that could not withstand the strain of being overheld, overloved, or overused, and be commanded to perform for his guests.
The huge Pacific seas, extending in unbroken lines sometimes a mile or half as much again in length, hurl themselves upon the reef, overtowering and falling upon it with tremendous crashes, and yet the fragile coral structure withstands the shock and protects the land.
There was no way that my flimsy parasail could withstand even a close miss by one of these vortexes -- and there was no way that the funnels were going to miss me.
In a paper published in Astronautica Acta in 1973 he points out that a ramjet built of aluminum could withstand a journey of 12.
Morgan Lefler would have been able to withstand the rebooting of the computer.
But Koshmar in her extraordinary resilience had withstood all these blows.