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Spell Bee Word: Stood


What does stood mean?

Word: Stood

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Stood means was or were on your feet, or stayed upright in one place. It is the past form of stand.

Synonyms: rose, remained

How do you spell stood?

Syllables: stood

Tricky part: The vowel is a double o, said as in good. Children write stod or stud.

Watch out for: stod, stoud, stuud

Memory tip: Stood has the same oo as foot and book.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. stood the test of time: lasted and stayed useful or loved for a long time. Example: "Grandma's recipe for laddoos has stood the test of time."

Stood in a sentence

Example 1: We stood in the queue for an hour to see the tiger at the zoo.

Example 2: Everyone stood up when the chief guest walked in.

Example 3: An old lamp post stood at the corner of our lane.

Fun Fact

Stood has no n, though stand does. Long ago, in Old English, the past form was already stod, without the n.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) garden
b) stoode
c) pencil
d) window

Show answer

b) stoode. Stood ends with the d; there is no e after it.

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

stood

a) rested
b) sat
c) leaned
d) paused

Show answer

b) sat. If you sat, you were not on your feet.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

dtoos

a) stodo
b) sotod
c) stood
d) sootd

Show answer

c) stood. The answer rhymes with good and wood.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

s_ood

a) t
b) m
c) k
d) l

Show answer

a) t. Stood begins st, just like stand.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Arnav stood first in the inter-house quiz. What does this tell us?

a) he stood up before the quiz
b) he scored the most points
c) he stood for the whole quiz
d) he was the first to arrive

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b) he scored the most points

2. Which sentence talks about the past?

a) We stand near the gate.
b) We stood near the gate.
c) We will stand near the gate.
d) We are standing near the gate.

Show answer

b) We stood near the gate.

Associated Words

boundinformativecarriageindiscriminatebaroness
garmentcompositionprobabilitycoherencelife

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