upstay

词形变化

upstayed upstaying upstays 三单 upstays upstaying 现在分词 upstayed 过去式 upstayed 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To sustain, support.

    古体

    Close to the vital seat of human clay; / Glad meetings, tender partings, that upstay

    In front, a massive gateway threats the sky, / And posts of solid adamant upstay / An iron tower, firm-planted to defy / All force, divine or human. Night and day,

    1917, Henry Charles Beeching, The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, 246, The Tree of Life Lighten, O sword divine, to clear my way, / And thou, O happy heart, upstay

词源

From up- + stay.

来源：wiktionary