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Stand up

verb

Rise to one's feet. Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, uprise.

Refuse to back down; remain solid under criticism or attack.

Put into an upright position. Synonyms: place upright, stand.

Be standing; be upright. Synonym: stand.

Defend against attack or criticism. Synonym: stick up. "She stuck up for the teacher who was accused of harassing the student"

Resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.. Synonyms: hold up, hold water. "This theory won't hold water"

Rise up as in fear. Synonyms: bristle, uprise. "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!"

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"Stand up" Quotes from Famous Books

... wouldn't you like to see her as she really is? (To a lady sitting with friends in a box.) Stand up, Norma, and let the audience ...

— Roving East and Roving West • E.V. Lucas

... on, "That was why I was so provoked with you. I think that for a young girl to stand up and dance alone before a whole steamer full of strangers"—Clementina looked at her without speaking, and Mrs. Milray hastened to say, "To be sure I advised you to do it, but I certainly was surprised that you should give an encore. But no matter, ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... recite to the professor. Poor fellow! He paid dear for his idleness. You would have pitied him, if you could have seen him trembling in his seat, every moment expecting to be called upon to recite. And when he was called upon, he would stand up and take what the class called a dead set; that is, he could not recite at all. Sometimes he would make such ludicrous blunders that the whole class would burst into a laugh. Such are the applauses idleness gets. He was wretched, of course. ...

— The Child at Home - The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Illustrated • John S.C. Abbott

... voice of unpaved eunuch to boot, can never amend," the sally of a saddened one. Is it not clear that to the last there was in Shakespear an incorrigible divine levity, an inexhaustible joy that derided sorrow? Think of the poor Dark Lady having to stand up to this unbearable power of extracting a grim fun from everything. Mr Harris writes as if Shakespear did all the suffering and the Dark Lady all the cruelty. But why does he not put himself in the Dark Lady's place for ...

— Dark Lady of the Sonnets • George Bernard Shaw

... which no self-control is learned. The so-called "good homes" in which children are exposed to petting, coddling, and overindulgence—and these homes are not confined to the wealthy—produce adults who do not stand up to their responsibilities. A probation officer in Philadelphia tells of the mother of a young deserter who could not account for her son's delinquency. "He ought to be a good boy," she complained; "I carried him up to ...

— Broken Homes - A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment • Joanna C. Colcord

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