stand trial

English

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Verb

stand trial (third-person singular simple present stands trial, present participle standing trial, simple past and past participle stood trial)

  1. (law) To be put on trial in a court of law.
  2. (idiomatic) To sustain the trial or examination of a cause; not to give up without trial.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stand trial in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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