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Verbs (24)

last, endure

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

suffer, endure

v. undergo or be subjected to; "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom"

wear, hold out, endure

v. last and be usable; "This dress wore well for almost ten years"

weather, endure, brave, brave out

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

prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure

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

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?"

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Fuzzynyms (140)

prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure

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

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

weather, endure, brave, brave out

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

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"

keep, stay fresh

v. fail to spoil or rot; "These potatoes keep for a long time"

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?"

remain

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"

v. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

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"

refrain, forbear

v. resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"

hold, carry, bear

v. support or hold in a certain manner; "She holds her head high"; "He carried himself upright"

stand

v. be in some specified state or condition; "I stand corrected"

predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate

v. be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"

deal

v. behave in a certain way towards others; "He deals fairly with his employees"

prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure

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

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

resist, hold out, withstand, stand firm

v. stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something

confront, face up, face

v. deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"

contend, fight, struggle

v. be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country"

equal, touch, rival, match

v. be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"

meet, encounter, play, take on

v. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"

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

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"

prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure

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

last, endure

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

weather, endure, brave, brave out

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

preserve

v. keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing; "preserve the forest and the lakes"

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"

Synonyms (3)

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"

Antonyms (34)

enjoy

v. have for one's benefit; "The industry enjoyed a boom"

die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it

v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

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"

eat up > egotistic > egotistical > elated > encounter > endeavor > endeavour > endure

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