"stay put" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-stay put.ogg [Australia] 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)
    Sense id: en-stay_put-en-verb-mEqY1Qcf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for stay put meaning in English (2.8kB)

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      "sense": "to remain in one fixed place",
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      "word": "sich nicht vom Fleck rühren"
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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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