Staying is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STAYING in dictionary:

VERB:
• STAY, to remain in a place of a condition
• remain in the same place
• delay leaving so as to join in (an activity)
• (of food) remain in the stomach, rather than be thrown up as vomit
• remain in a specified state or position
• (of a person) live somewhere temporarily as a visitor or guest
• live permanently
• stop, delay, or prevent (something), in particular suspend or postpone (judicial proceedings) or refrain from pressing (charges)
• assuage (hunger) for a short time
• curb; check
• wait a moment in order to allow someone time to think or speak
• support or prop up
• secure or steady (a mast) by means of stays
NOUN:
• a period of staying somewhere, in particular of living somewhere temporarily as a visitor or guest
• a curb or check
• a suspension or postponement of judicial proceedings
• a device used as a brace or support.
• a corset made of two pieces laced together and stiffened by strips of whalebone.
• power of endurance
• a guy or rope supporting a flagstaff or other upright pole.
• a supporting wire or cable on an aircraft.
• a large rope, wire, or rod used to support a ship's mast, leading from the masthead to another mast or spar or down to another part of the ship.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to continue in a place or condition

Words related to STAYING

staid6 stay7 stayed10 stays8

Words that contain STAYING

unstaying13 upstaying15 outstaying14 overstaying18

How to use STAYING in a sentence

• Molly was a mere bird of passage, an American girl staying with friends for a brief time, therefore my infatuation was a humorous thing.
• I was staying with friends when I met him, at a church social.
• Johnson paid to Lichfield, the friends with whom he was staying missed him one morning at the breakfast-table.
• By staying with me you will confer the very greatest kindness upon me, and you will aid me in a matter which concerns my own honour and the honour of my family.
• Finally, when even this did not give room enough to accommodate all who thronged its doors, members took turns in staying away from certain services.
• One of these diseases had made Julian a call, and insisted on staying with him a week or two.
• They were scarcely ever without some friends staying with them in the house, and they kept more company of every kind than any other family in the neighbourhood.
• Early next morning I read in a daily paper that he had been arrested the previous night in a Temperance Hotel where he had been staying.
• Cast hither and thither in the waves, the ship at last came ashore at Luna, where the Bishop of Lucca was staying in the summer heat.
• As for staying here, my home, you know, is where he needs me.
• His mother had read him stories about soldiers staying awake all night.
• He gave him enough to make him comfortable for the rest of his days, and insisted on his coming and staying with him as often and as long as he wished.
• Then, without staying to receive his thanks, she wished him success in his travels and disappeared.
• He has himself set us the example of staying at his post in the hour of danger.
• It was almost as good as staying with the pastor himself, she said.
• To his mother it meant a distinct social advance, as no family staying in town all summer could be held really respectable.
• The would-be colonists could not agree with those who had no intention of staying behind.
• The next morning I had one from Sir Robert Kerr for a parley, who was within two miles staying for mee.
• He has from the first been persistent in staying at Manila.
• They were intending to be staying, they were staying.
• He was the one who had done this and he was the one who could do this which he would have done and he did do what he could have done if he had done all the staying he did.
• He said that he heard that he said that he was not staying and he said he was not staying as he was the one not intending leaving staying.
• They were preparing what they would be doing as they were staying where they were staying.
• He did say that if he would be staying he would be knowing he was saying what he was saying.
• I was staying at the Grand Hotel in London when the telegram was handed to me.
• He thought that he, too, would much prefer staying with Mrs.
• It is true we had firearms, a pair of pistols having been literally forced upon us by the doctor, who fretted and fumed about our staying there alone.
• The fact is that nothing is so easy as falling in love and staying there.

Similar words containing STAY without suffix ing

stay7 stays8 stayed10 stayer9 stayne9 stayre9 upstay11 bobstay14 outstay10 stayers10 stayned11 staynes10 stayres10 upstays12 backstay19 bobstays15 forestay14 headstay15 homestay16 jackstay24 mainstay13 outstays11 overstay14 stayaway17 stayless11 stayning12 staysail11 unstayed12 upstayed14 backstays20 forestays15 headstays16 homestays17 jackstays25 mainstays14 outstayed13 overstays15 stayaways18 staymaker18 staysails12 unstaying13 upstaying15 outstaying14 overstayed17 overstayer16 staycation15 staymakers19 staystitch18 overstayers17 overstaying18 staycations16 stormstayed17 forestaysail18 staycationer17 staystitched21 staystitches20 forestaysails19 staycationers18 staystitching22

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