"stand firm" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "stands firm",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing firm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood firm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood firm",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> firm"
      },
      "expansion": "stand firm (third-person singular simple present stands firm, present participle standing firm, simple past and past participle stood firm)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:",
          "text": "With Wales in a back four, England found joy out wide. The defensive effort impressed though, and Neco Williams courageously took a driven strike from Rashford to the head as Wales stood firm, but then, concern hit.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To resist assault or pressure."
      ],
      "id": "en-stand_firm-en-verb-fGwrGSnX",
      "links": [
        [
          "resist",
          "resist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To resist assault or pressure."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hold firm"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stand fast"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "note": "लोहा लेना (lohā lenā, literally “to take iron”)",
          "sense": "to resist assault or pressure"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to resist assault or pressure",
          "word": "whakawhena"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to resist assault or pressure",
          "word": "whakaio"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand firm"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands firm",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing firm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood firm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood firm",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "stand<,,stood> firm"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hold firm"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:",
          "text": "With Wales in a back four, England found joy out wide. The defensive effort impressed though, and Neco Williams courageously took a driven strike from Rashford to the head as Wales stood firm, but then, concern hit.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To resist assault or pressure."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "resist",
          "resist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To resist assault or pressure."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stand fast"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "note": "लोहा लेना (lohā lenā, literally “to take iron”)",
      "sense": "to resist assault or pressure"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to resist assault or pressure",
      "word": "whakawhena"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to resist assault or pressure",
      "word": "whakaio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand firm"
}