Offstand
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Offstand is a verb meaning (transitive) To endure against; stand or ward off; defend against; withstand; resist.
Meaning
(transitive) To endure against; stand or ward off; defend against; withstand; resist.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To offset; compensate for; make restitution for.
- Offset; restitution.
Example Sentences
Those who are involved in long enmities sacrifice continually to the hidit in order to offstand such affliction.
[…] and hope to build with such permanency and force as to offstand the headwaters which will surely come again.
[…] announced in its issue of October tenth that New Jersey's Governor, Livingston, had received word of the intended attack and was planning measures to offstand it.
To offstand the dire effects of its hoarding policy, the Secretary, from March 4, 1885, began lending money to the national banks — that is he deposited it in those institutions.
Word Forms
- offstands
- offstanding
- offstood
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include forstand, withstand, outstand, outhold, withstay, stand out.
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