Movement

Synonyms for stay

Synonyms for stay: stick and delay. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 2 senses · verb · 2 reason lines

The 2 synonyms for stay

stickverb, in the sense "be in a certain place and not leave"
delayverb, in the sense "stop or halt"

Two senses of stay, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.

Sense 1 of 2verbTier 1, FoothillsMovement

be in a certain place and not leave

Stay put in the corner here!

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

stick

Same sentence, swapped: Stick put in the corner here!

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for stay in the sentence quoted.

delay
appease
move

Sense 2 of 2verbTier 2, TreelineChange

stop or halt

Please stay the bloodshed!

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

delay

Same sentence, swapped: Please delay the bloodshed!

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for stay in the sentence quoted.

stick
remain
found

Where stay turns up in the game

stay is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play stay

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stay reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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Closest first: other movement words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

stridenounstepa long, decisive step taken while walking or runningFoothillsHas a reason line strollverbwanderto walk in a leisurely, unhurried wayFoothillsHas a reason line swiftlyadverbrapidlyquickly, at high speedFoothillsHas a reason line tracenoun, verbshadowan indication that something has been presentFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line vacateverbemptyleave behind emptyRidgelineHas a reason line veerverbswerveto change direction suddenlyTreelineHas a reason line voyagenounpassagea long journey, especially by seaTreelineHas a reason line unionnounjoina set containing all and only the members of two or more given setsFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. stay carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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