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[ verb ] remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile
Examples "Traffic stood still when the funeral procession passed by" Used in print (Cordwainer Smith, "A Planet Named Shayol,"...)Time stood_still for these people , and their load of pleasure was so commingled with the shocks and pains of the dromozoa that the words of the Lady_Da took_on very remote meaning . (Ann Ritner, Seize a Nettle....)It was so cold and so wretched that a sort_of desperate gaiety infected all_of them , like people stormbound or shipwrecked or caught in some other freak of circumstance so_that time stood_still and minor anxieties fell_away and the only important thing was to cling together and survive . |
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