OVERSTAY Synonyms

• put up with something or somebody unpleasant

• face and withstand with courage

• continue to live and avoid dying

• undergo or be subjected to

• last and be usable

• persist for a specified period of time

• continue to exist

• be greater in scope or size than some standard

• be superior or better than some standard

• be or do something to a greater degree

• remain present although waning or gradually dying

• be about a place without any apparent purpose

• leave slowly and hesitantly

• take one's time; proceed slowly

• to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time

• live longer than

• lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer

• lengthen or extend in duration or space

• stay the same; remain in a certain state

• continue in a place, position, or situation

• be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.

• stay behind

• continuing or remaining in a place or state

• the state of inactivity following an interruption

• a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted

• a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)

• (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar

• stay the same; remain in a certain state

• stay put (in a certain place)

• dwell

• continue in a place, position, or situation

• remain behind

• stop or halt

• stay behind

• hang on during a trial of endurance

• stop a judicial process

• fasten with stays

• overcome or allay

• distinguish oneself

• be or do something to a greater degree

• move past

• be greater in scope or size than some standard

• having the characteristics of pitch or tar

• be about a place without any apparent purpose

• leave slowly and hesitantly