Definition of "abided" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of abide. (verb)

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• "It would be unfair to say that Indians as a whole have simply abided by the situation."
• "A placer camp he knew was ephemeral, while a quartz camp abided, and he kept a score of men in the quest for months."
• "Again Saxon felt the loving benediction that abided in his face, his eyes, his hands -- toward which she involuntarily dropped her eyes."