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3 words match “OUTSTAY”

OUTSTAY v.
To stay beyond or longer than. She concluded to outstay him. Mad. D' Arblay.
OUTSIT v.
To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.
SIT v.
] -- To sit out. (a) To be without engagement or employment. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson. (b) To outstay. -- To sit under, to be under the instruction or ministrations of; as, to sit under a preacher; to sit under good preaching. -- To sit up, to rise from, or refrain from, a recumbent posture or from sleep; to sit with the…