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

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

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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stay, stay on, continue, remain

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"

stay, remain, rest

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"

loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around

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

tarry, linger

v. leave slowly and hesitantly

bide, abide, stay

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

outlive, outlast, survive

v. live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"

last, endure

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

survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out

v. continue to live through hardship or adversity; "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?"

weather, endure, brave, brave out

v. face and withstand with courage; "She braved the elements"

outlive, outlast, survive

v. live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"

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"

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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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"

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

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

retire, withdraw

v. lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died"

falter, waver

v. be unsure or weak; "Their enthusiasm is faltering"

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