• v.
    ⦿not act or do anything
    lexical concept
  • He just stood by when the police beat up the demonstrators

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:stand by
wn:interlingual indexili:i35298

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelstand by