Usually means: Cease movement, remain in place.
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  1. stand still: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stand still: Collins English Dictionary
  3. stand still: Vocabulary.com
  4. stand-still: Wordnik
  5. stand still: Wiktionary
  6. stand still: Dictionary.com
  7. stand still: Rhymezone
  8. stand still: FreeDictionary.org
  9. stand still: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. stand still: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. stand still: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stand still)

▸ verb:  (sometimes figurative) To stop moving, to remain motionless.
▸ noun:  Obsolete spelling of standstill. [Complete immobility; a halt.]

Similar:
sit still, stand, stand by, sit idly by, stand there like a lemon, sit on, hold one's peace, repose, stand off, stalemate, more...

Opposite:
move, progress, advance, proceed, go

Phrases:
I Can't Stand Still, to stand still, opposite of stand still, more...

Adjectives:
halt, stilled, stopped, stable, check, fine, stop-and-go, traverse, stinted, staunch, stale



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Similar:
sit still, stand, stand by, sit idly by, stand there like a lemon, sit on, hold one's peace, repose, stand off, stalemate, more...

Opposite:
move, progress, advance, proceed, go

Phrases:
I Can't Stand Still, to stand still, opposite of stand still, more...

Adjectives:
halt, stilled, stopped, stable, check, fine, stop-and-go, traverse, stinted, staunch, stale



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