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restar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abide verb To accept and follow a rule, decision, or agreement (used with "by").
  • remain verb To stay in the same place, condition, or state without changing.
  • return verb To come or go back to a place, or to give something back to its owner.
  • stay verb To remain in a place rather than leaving.
  • subtract verb To take one number or amount away from another.
  • tarry verb (literary) To stay somewhere longer than planned, or to delay leaving.

Senses

restar is used for these senses in English:

  • abide (intransitive, archaic, Scotland) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left. [from ca. 1150—1350]
  • remain To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
  • return (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
  • subtract (transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.
  • tarry (transitive) To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.

abide — full definition

  1. verb To accept and follow a rule, decision, or agreement (used with "by").
  2. verb To tolerate or put up with something, especially in negative statements.
  3. verb (literary) To remain or continue in a place; to stay.

remain — full definition

  1. verb To stay in the same place, condition, or state without changing.
  2. verb To be left over after everything else has been used, removed, or dealt with.

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