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動詞

stay out (三人称単数 現在形 stays out, 現在分詞 staying out, 過去形および過去分詞形 stayed out)

1. (intransitive) To spend time out of one's house.

   He stayed out all night in the bar.

   • 1972 March 14, Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Paramount Pictures, spoken by Bonasera (Salvatore Corsitto):

     She found a boyfriend. Not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out late. I didn't protest.

2. (transitive) To avoid going into somewhere.

   He stayed out of the bar all night.

3. (obsolete) To outstay; to stay longer than.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, “Which Consists of Visiting”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume V, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XIII, page 29:

     The company had now staid so long, that Mrs Fitzpatrick plainly perceived they all designed to stay out each other. She therefore resolved to rid herself of Jones, he being the visitant to whom she thought the least ceremony was due.