Verb
(transitive) To object to or interfere with the actions of (someone seen as bullying, pushy, or controlling).
If anyone stood up to him, I bet he'd back down.
(transitive) To withstand, to weather, to survive in spite of.
The paint looks good, but I don't know if it will stand up to years of weather.
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies. Ben Carson
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Norman Vincent Peale
They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles. Anita Pallenberg
When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men? Phyllis Schlafly
As to what happened next, it is possible to maintain that the hand of heaven was involved, and also possible to say that when men are desperate no one can stand up to them. Xenophon
The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century. Allyson Schwartz