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RELATED WORDS : be still coat stand coffey still covered stand cruet stand custer's last stand hold still for home stand music stand one-night stand reviewing stand stable stand stand stand aloof stand apart stand aside stand back stand behind stand by stand down stand fast stand firm stand for stand guard stand in stand in for stand in the way stand off stand oil stand on stand out stand over stand pat stand sentinel stand together stand up stand up for stand up to stand watch still still hunt still life still room still water still wine stock still take a firm stand take the stand wash stand wash-hand stand witness stand

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Verb stand still has 1 sense

• stand still(v = verb.motion) Array - remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile; "Traffic stood still when the funeral procession passed by"
Antonym: move
Derived form noun standstill₁
Sample sentences:
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stand still

abide, be conservative, be still, coast, do nothing, freeze, keep quiet, leave alone, let alone, let be, lie still, mark time, not breathe, not stir, oppose change, remain, remain motionless, repose, rest, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand pat, stay, stay put, stick, stick fast, tarry, tread water

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Permanence

VB let alone, let be, let it be, persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest, stet (copy editing) hold, hold on, last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell, maintain, keep, stand, stand still, stand fast, subsist, live, outlive, survive, hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing, hold good.

Quiescence

N quiescence, rest, stillness, quiescence, stagnation, stagnancy, fixity, immobility, catalepsy, indisturbance, quietism, quiet, tranquility, calm, repose, peace, dead calm, anticyclone, statue-like repose, silence, not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring, sleep, pause, lull, stand still, standing still, lock, dead lock, dead stop, dead stand, full stop, fix, embargo, resting place, gite, bivouac, home, pillow, haven, goal, quiescent, still, motionless, moveless, fixed, stationary, immotile, at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, stock, still, standing still, sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home, becalmed, stagnant, quiet, unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled, calm, restful, cataleptic, immovable, sleeping, silent, still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death, vegetative, vegetating, at a stand, tout court, at the halt, Int, stop!, stay!, avast!, halt!, hold hard!, whoa!, hold!, sabr karo!, requiescat in pace, Deus nobis haec otia fecit, the noonday quiet holds the hill.

VB be quiescent, stand still, lie still, keep quiet, repose, hold the breath, remain, stay, stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time, bring to, heave to, lay to, pull up, draw up, hold, halt, stop, stop short, rest, pause, anchor, cast to an anchor, come to an anchor, rest on one's oars, repose on one's laurels, take breath, stop, stagnate, quieta non movere, let alone, abide, rest and be thankful, keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed, dwell, settle, alight, stick, stick fast, stand like a post, not stir a peg, not stir a step, be at a stand, quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay an embargo on.

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