withstand
verb (used with object)
to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully: to withstand the invaders;
unwithstood
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a word derived from
withstand.
Example Sentences
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To them the tide of fortune was no ordinary stream but the 'white-maned, proud, neck-arching tide' that bore adventurers to sea 'with pomp of waters unwithstood.'
From Elizabethan Sea Dogs by William Charles Henry Wood
