"stay put" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-stay put.ogg Forms: stays put [present, singular, third-person], staying put [participle, present], stayed put [participle, past], stayed put [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} stay put (third-person singular simple present stays put, present participle staying put, simple past and past participle stayed put)
  1. (idiomatic) To remain in one fixed place Tags: idiomatic Translations (to remain in one fixed place): pysyä paikoillaan (Finnish), jököttää (Finnish), sich nicht vom Fleck rühren (German), helyben marad (Hungarian), starsene (Italian), bli (Norwegian Bokmål), bli rolig (Norwegian Bokmål), bli der man er (Norwegian Bokmål), holde seg i ro (Norwegian Bokmål), остава́ться на ме́сте (ostavátʹsja na méste) [imperfective] (Russian), оста́ться на ме́сте (ostátʹsja na méste) [perfective] (Russian), quedarse en un sitio fijo (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
          "word": "sich nicht vom Fleck rühren"
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          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
          "word": "helyben marad"
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          "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
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          "code": "nb",
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          "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
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      "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
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      "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
      "word": "sich nicht vom Fleck rühren"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
      "word": "helyben marad"
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      "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
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      "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
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      "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
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      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
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      "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
      "word": "holde seg i ro"
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