"withstay" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "with",
        "3": "stay",
        "t1": "back, against"
      },
      "expansion": "with- (“back, against”) + stay",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From with- (“back, against”) + stay.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "withstays",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "withstaying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "withstayed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "withstayed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "withstay (third-person singular simple present withstays, present participle withstaying, simple past and past participle withstayed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with with-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, S. T. Dobell, Balder iii. 10",
          "text": "Death, careful of my learning, hath withstayed His final presence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1885, R. Bridges, Eros & Psyche iii. v. 29",
          "text": "It filled the passage of the rising glade, And there withstayed the sun in dazzling sheen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Aldo Covello, Società italiana di fisica, Struttura Dei Nuclei Lontano Dalla Valle Di Stabilità",
          "text": "More interestingly the shock has sufficiently high temperatures that nuclear binding cannot withstay and matter is ejected as free protons and neutrons from the neutron star surface.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold back; oppose; withstand."
      ],
      "id": "en-withstay-en-verb-MElr-AmR",
      "links": [
        [
          "hold back",
          "hold back"
        ],
        [
          "oppose",
          "oppose"
        ],
        [
          "withstand",
          "withstand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To hold back; oppose; withstand."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gainstay"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "withstay"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "with",
        "3": "stay",
        "t1": "back, against"
      },
      "expansion": "with- (“back, against”) + stay",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From with- (“back, against”) + stay.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "withstays",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "withstaying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "withstayed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "withstayed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "withstay (third-person singular simple present withstays, present participle withstaying, simple past and past participle withstayed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with with-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, S. T. Dobell, Balder iii. 10",
          "text": "Death, careful of my learning, hath withstayed His final presence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1885, R. Bridges, Eros & Psyche iii. v. 29",
          "text": "It filled the passage of the rising glade, And there withstayed the sun in dazzling sheen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Aldo Covello, Società italiana di fisica, Struttura Dei Nuclei Lontano Dalla Valle Di Stabilità",
          "text": "More interestingly the shock has sufficiently high temperatures that nuclear binding cannot withstay and matter is ejected as free protons and neutrons from the neutron star surface.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold back; oppose; withstand."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hold back",
          "hold back"
        ],
        [
          "oppose",
          "oppose"
        ],
        [
          "withstand",
          "withstand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To hold back; oppose; withstand."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "gainstay"
    }
  ],
  "word": "withstay"
}