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PERSEVERATE Synonyms

There are 12 synonyms of the word perseverate. (exact relations)
There are 6 hypernyms of the word perseverate. (close relations)
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Best Alternative Words for PERSEVERATE

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continue
verbv
verb

• continue a certain state, condition, or activity

• continue talking

• keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last

• move ahead; travel onward in time or space

• allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature

• do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop

• continue after an interruption

• continue in a place, position, or situation

• span an interval of distance, space or time

• exist over a prolonged period of time

dwell
verbv
verb

• think moodily or anxiously about something

• originate (in)

• be an inhabitant of or reside in

• exist or be situated within

• come back to

endure
verbv
verb

• 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

fixate
verbv
verb

• attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way

• pay attention to exclusively and obsessively

• make fixed, stable or stationary

• become fixed (on)

insist
verbv
verb

• be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge

• beg persistently and urgently

• postulate positively and assertively

obsess
verbv
verb

• haunt like a ghost; pursue

• be preoccupied with something

persist
verbv
verb

• continue to exist

• be persistent, refuse to stop

• stay behind

repeat
verbv
noun

• an event that repeats

verb

• to say, state, or perform again

• make or do or perform again

• happen or occur again

• to say again or imitate

• do over

• repeat an earlier theme of a composition

ruminate
verbv
verb

• chew the cuds

• reflect deeply on a subject

harp
nounn
noun

• a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers

• a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade

• a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole

verb

• come back to

• play the harp

obsesses
verbv
verb

• haunt like a ghost; pursue

• be preoccupied with something

keep on
verbv
verb

• allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature

Best Hypernyms For PERSEVERATE

Here is a list of related hypernyms for perseverate, these are close relations that fall within the same topic. Most relevant words are highlighted and in order.
Words (6)
ingeminate iterate reiterate repeat restate retell

Alternatives for CONTINUE

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