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  "type": "wiki",
  "pronunciations": {
    "phonetic": [
      "w\u026a\u03b8\u02c8st\u00e6nd"
    ],
    "listenurl": [
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        "lang": "Audio (US)",
        "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/withstand.ogg"
      },
      {
        "lang": "Audio (US)",
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    "etymologies": [
      "From Middle English withstanden, from Old English wi\u00festandan, from Proto-West Germanic wi\u00feistandan (\u201cto withstand, resist\u201d), equivalent to with- (\u201cagainst\u201d) + stand. Cognate with Old Frisian withstanda (\u201cto resist\u201d). Compare also Dutch weerstaan (\u201cto withstand, repel\u201d), German widerstehen (\u201cto withstand, resist, defy\u201d)."
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        "name": "Verb",
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            "mean": "(transitive) To resist or endure (something) successfully.\n1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, \u2192ISBN, page 65:Tests showed that a tin ceiling could withstand a temperature of 1,369\u00b0 for an hour and 10 minutes, whereas plaster collapsed in 12 minutes.\n2014 October 26, Jeff Howell, \u201cIs the Japanese knotweed threat exaggerated? Our troubleshooter calls for calm about Japanese knotweed in the garden \u2013 and moss on the roof \u201d, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)\u200e:Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth."
          },
          {
            "mean": "To oppose (something) forcefully."
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
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