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v. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"

v. hold the phone line open; "Please hang on while I get your folder"

persevere, persist, hang in, hang on, hold on

v. be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"

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stop, halt

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

stop

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

discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off

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

stop, halt, block, kibosh

v. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

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"

break

v. interrupt the flow of current in; "break a circuit"

punctuate

v. interrupt periodically; "Her sharp questions punctuated the speaker's drone"

fall in

v. to take one's place in a military formation or line; "Troops fall in!"

abstain, refrain, desist

v. choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"

adjourn, recess, break up

v. close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"

suspend, set aside

v. make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"

freeze, suspend

v. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"

suspend

v. cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"

delete, cancel

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

leave office, quit, step down, resign

v. give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"

rest, breathe, catch one's breath, take a breather

v. take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

paralyze, paralyse

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

finish, end, terminate

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"

intercept, stop

v. seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"

tolerate

v. have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition; "The patient does not tolerate the anti-inflammatory drugs we gave him"

push

v. sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs); "The guy hanging around the school is pushing drugs"

endeavor, endeavour, strive

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

struggle

v. to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope"

labor, labour

v. undergo the efforts of childbirth

insist, assert

v. assert to be true; "The letter asserts a free society"

insist, take a firm stand

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

keep, maintain, hold

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"

assert, asseverate, maintain

v. state categorically

run low, run short, go

v. to be spent or finished; "The money had gone after a few days"; "Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest"

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