What does stood mean?
Stood means simple past and past participle of stand.
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/stʊd/ · verb
simple past and past participle of stand.
This morning a bloke stood next to me wearing nothing but sandals.
The teacher stood her facing the corner.
The flowers were stood in a vase on the table. (informal; chiefly UK/Commonwealth)
At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
Use stood when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stood means simple past and past participle of stand.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This morning a bloke stood next to me wearing nothing but sandals.
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