PERSEVERATES Synonyms

• 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

• think moodily or anxiously about something

• originate (in)

• be an inhabitant of or reside in

• exist or be situated within

• come back to

• 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)

• 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

• be persistent, refuse to stop

• continue to exist

• be persistent, refuse to stop

• stay behind

• to say, state, or perform again

• an event that repeats

• 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

• 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

• come back to

• play the harp

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