withstand
verb (used with object)
to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully: to withstand the invaders;
will have withstood
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future perfectof withstand.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
Example Sentences
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And who knows, a hundred years from now, whose ideas will have withstood the test of time, who will seem prescient and who, downright silly and wrongheaded?
From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2012
