Usually means: Remained faithful to; followed consistently.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. abided: Merriam-Webster
  2. abided: Collins English Dictionary
  3. abided: Vocabulary.com
  4. abided: Wordnik
  5. abided: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. abided: Wiktionary
  7. abided: Dictionary.com
  8. abided: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. abided: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abided: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. abided: Legal dictionary

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  1. abided: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abide)

verb:  (transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand.
verb:  (transitive) To bear patiently.
verb:  (transitive) To pay for; to stand the consequences of.
verb:  Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To wait in expectation.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To pause; to delay.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic, Scotland) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To have one's abode.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To endure; to remain; to last.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
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