stayed
- 1Simple past and past participle of stay.
The crowd stayed calm despite the long delay.
Prices have stayed steady throughout the entire year.
Note
One regular form covers two kinds of grammar. With the "remain" meanings it is intransitive or copular. Guests stayed late, prices stayed steady, and the perfect takes have (they have stayed). With the transitive meanings, which are to prop up or to stop and hold back, it can also be passive: a hand stayed before it struck, a wall stayed against collapse. Only these transitive meanings allow "was stayed."
His hand was stayed before he could strike.
The old wall was stayed with timber beams.
stayed is a form of stay
stay, verb: To remain in a place rather than leave, especially for a limited time, sometimes while waiting for something. Full entry
- Spelling
- stay → stayed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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