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persist, remain, stay
v. stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up"
prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure
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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Fuzzynyms (87)
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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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Antonyms (15)
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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"
persist
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