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is used (in a quasi-passive role) for standing in non-standard uses comparable to sat for sitting, such as:
My husband was stood on the opposite side of the pits—Cycling Weekly, 1993.The origins of this use are obscure and probably dialectal.
| stone adverb., stoic, stoical, stoep | |
| stop, stay, storey, story, straight away |
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IN BRIEF: To have supported oneself on the feet in an upright position.
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
— Theodore Parker (1810-1860)
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