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v. be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.; "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"

persist, remain, stay

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

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"

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Fuzzynyms (134)

sojourn

v. spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily

last, endure

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

stay, stay on, continue, remain

stay, remain, rest

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"

persist, remain, stay

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

stay, remain, rest

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

wait

v. stay in one place and anticipate or expect something; "I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets"

reprieve, respite

v. postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution

persist, remain, stay

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

stay, stay on, continue, remain

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"

pause suddenly, break off

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

last, endure

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

regenerate, renew

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"

recondition

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

rejuvenate

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

extend

v. open or straighten out; unbend; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?"

extend

v. prolong the time allowed for payment of; "extend the loan"

sojourn

v. spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily

relax, loosen

v. become less severe or strict; "The rules relaxed after the new director arrived"

calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it

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."

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"

congregate

v. come together, usually for a purpose; "The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve"

vociferate, shout out

v. utter in a very loud voice; "They vociferated their demands"

prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure

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

hinge

v. attach with a hinge

soothe

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

loosen, relax, loose

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

comfort, ease

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

ease

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

retire

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

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"

retreat

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

suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb

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

paralyze, paralyse

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

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Antonyms (22)

switch, shift, change

v. lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"

leave, leave alone, leave behind

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"

leave, depart, pull up stakes

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"

find oneself, find

v. accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

acquire

v. locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar

move, go, run

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

fail

v. get worse; "Her health is declining"

pass

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

crack

v. break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked"

abort

v. terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion

run, go

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"

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