v. stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"

v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"

v. continue talking; "I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room"

v. allow to remain in a place or position; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"

v. move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now"

v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"

v. continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"

v. stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up"

v. continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"

v. be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

v. leave slowly and hesitantly

v. dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young"

v. prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"

v. persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"

v. reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership"

v. bring into an improved condition; "He reconditioned the old appliances"

v. make younger or more youthful; "The contact with his grandchildren rejuvenated him"

v. extend in scope or range or area; "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon"; "Extend your backyard"

v. lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"

v. spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily

v. become less tense, rest, or take one's ease; "He relaxed in the hot tub"; "Let's all relax after a hard day's work"

v. become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off."; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."

v. come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"

v. cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"

v. collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"

v. utter words loudly and forcefully; "`Get out of here,' he roared"

v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"

v. attach with a hinge

v. cause to feel better; "the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation"

v. become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"

v. lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; "ease the pain in your legs"

v. move gently or carefully; "He eased himself into the chair"

v. go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position; "He retired at age 68"

v. bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

v. move away, as for privacy; "The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer"

v. to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"

v. make powerless and unable to function; "The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation"

v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

v. strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"

v. attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy"

v. make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"

v. work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

v. insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized; "Women should assert themselves more!"

v. be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; "I must insist!"

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"

v. state categorically

v. reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership"

v. move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; "Time marches on"

v. move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now"

v. to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"

v. get better; "The weather improved toward evening"

v. reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

v. continue talking; "I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room"

v. become longer by being stretched and pulled; "The fabric stretches"

v. move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense; "Government reaches out to the people"

v. stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"

v. extend in scope or range or area; "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon"; "Extend your backyard"

v. take up or begin anew; "We resumed the negotiations"

v. follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?"

v. dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young"

v. continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"

v. protect or fight for as a champion

v. give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"

v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

v. move while holding up or supporting; "Bear gifts"; "bear a heavy load"; "bear news"; "bearing orders"

v. give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to; "She supported him during the illness"; "Her children always backed her up"

v. be in charge of, act on, or dispose of; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old"

v. accept as a challenge; "I'll tackle this difficult task"

v. change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"

v. institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"

v. undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"

v. leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking; "leave it as is"; "leave the young fawn alone"; "leave the flowers that you see in the park behind"

v. remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"

v. receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"

v. come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"

v. progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting"

v. stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

v. transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control"

v. as through a barrier; "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"

v. terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion

v. have a particular form; "the story or argument runs as follows"; "as the saying goes..."

v. be or continue to be in a certain condition; "The children went hungry that day"

v. bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

v. come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity

v. terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

v. come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity

v. put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"

v. give up with the intent of never claiming again; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead"

v. stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations"

v. leave or give by will after one's death; "My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry"; "My grandfather left me his entire estate"

v. come or be at an end; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31"

v. be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"

v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"