Move
Move verb - To change one's position.
Usage example: don't move while I'm trying to draw your portrait
Stay
Stay verb - To continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time.
Usage example: let's stay inside this pavilion until it stops raining
How words are described
| good | good move | good stay |
| best | best move | best stay |
| better | better move | better stay |
| normal | normal move | normal stay |
| Other adjectives: original, free, wrong, bad, quick, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Perry elects to let them stay and move out of the house himself instead.
Source: Film / Dark Blue -
Compelling Voice: Voice control allows trained telepaths to take control of others' autonomous movement (the more powerful the telepath, the more people they can control at once; one at a time is most common), forcing them to move or stay still as the telepath desires.
Source: Literature / Firebird Trilogy -
The Covenant make much more extensive use of gravity technology; all of their vehicles use anti-gravity to move and stay afloat, and they even use it for things as small and mundane as jetpacks, chairs and lifts.
Source: Artificial Gravity
Cite this Source
Stay and Move. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/move/stay
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