Stays is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STAYS 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
PLURAL NOUN:
• old-fashioned corsets with bones in them
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 woman\'s close-fitting foundation garment
• 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 STAYS

staid6 stay7 stayed10 staying11

Words that contain STAYS

upstays12 bobstays15 outstays11 staysail11 backstays20 forestays15 headstays16 homestays17 jackstays25 mainstays14 overstays15 staysails12 staystitch18 forestaysail18 staystitched21 staystitches20 forestaysails19 staystitching22

How to use STAYS in a sentence

• Then he stays that night guarding him and gets more and more interested.
• For there is Bill, the second eldest, who stays at home and helps work the farm.
• His earthly immortality is safe and sure, for that stone will stand as long as the island stays.
• Several figures hovered about her, adjusting stays and putting finishing touches to her complicated mechanism.
• But still it stays there, hanging like an inspiration straight from Heaven to all who see it.
• He stays to dine with us two or three nights a week, but he has grown flexible, and our meals are very merry ones.
• The wind was whistling now in the rigging, and the stays of the mast were humming like two harp strings.
• Rena Lee lived next to where old man Paterson stays now, 906 Chester.
• So long as one stays in that world he is called a spirit.
• The picture stays just long enough to fix itself in the memory, and then the young man goes lightly down the worn steps, and is lost along the crowded street.
• He, however, who is the God of both, who goes with him, and stays with you, can not only support, but comfort.
• Now, it is just these lower ribs, across which the diaphragm is stretched like the head of a drum, which stays contract to a minimum.
• Your true rover, lay or clerical, comes for something or other, and stays to get it, or dies.
• Back it goes into the drawer, and it stays there until the police find it.
• It shrieked and whistled and tore at the canvas side-awnings with a vehemence that threatened to rip them from their stays.
• A royal princess, who had come to insult her, is conquered by her candor and truth, and stays to sympathize with her and lend her the support of her presence.
• But Chaka stays on the hill with the three that are left.
• He says that his whole body is aching, and now he stays in bed.
• The Eskimos build their snow houses in this way, and the man inside stays there until he is completely walled in.
• Temple joins his father soon after this, and stays in Ireland a few months.
• He cheerfully stays in the sitting-room, while she is away having a good time, and sings while he cares for the four small children.
• But after dose theaters open, I stays me on the chob till twelve, or later somedimes.
• If it is what it is then it is easy enough for it to stay where it stays and if it stays where it says is it what it has been.
• He does not refuse to remain although he does stay when he stays.
• She has probably come to London recently, and if she stays any time it would not be a difficult matter for me to find her.
• He sits in the Side Box the first Act of the Play, and stays no longer, for some Reasons best known to himself.
• We sounded when in stays, but had no ground with a line of eighty fathoms.
• Twelve stakes were required, ten for the sides and one for the ridge stays at the front and rear.
• Business, my lord! I think most understand Bohemia stays here longer.

Similar words containing STAY without suffix s

stay7 stayed10 stayer9 stayne9 stayre9 upstay11 bobstay14 outstay10 stayers10 staying11 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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