Usually means: Continue to exist or endure.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Persist:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. persist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. persist: Merriam-Webster
  3. persist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. persist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. persist: Collins English Dictionary
  6. persist: Vocabulary.com
  7. Persist, persist: Wordnik
  8. persist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. persist: Wiktionary
  10. persist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. persist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. persist: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Persist, persist: Dictionary.com
  14. persist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. persist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Persist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Persist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. persist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. persist: Rhymezone
  20. persist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. persist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. persist: FreeDictionary.org
  23. persist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. persist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Persist (Java), persist: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persist: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PERSIST: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. persist: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (persist)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To repeat an utterance.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To continue to exist.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, copulative, obsolete) To continue to be; to remain.
▸ verb:  (computing, transitive) To cause to persist; make permanent.

Similar:
persevere, endure, stay, hang on, hang in, prevail, remain, hold on, run, die hard, more...

Opposite:
cease, quit, surrender, abandon, desist

Types:
persevere, persistence, persistent, persistency, persistentness, more...

Phrases:
persist in, persist remain continue, outlast persist, persist eternally, allow to persist, more...

Colors:
    forest green,     maroon,     charcoal,     indigo,     burgundy, more...


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Similar:
persevere, endure, stay, hang on, hang in, prevail, remain, hold on, run, die hard, more...

Opposite:
cease, quit, surrender, abandon, desist

Types:
persevere, persistence, persistent, persistency, persistentness, more...

Phrases:
persist in, persist remain continue, outlast persist, persist eternally, allow to persist, opposite of persist, will persist, more...

Colors:
    forest green,     maroon,     charcoal,     indigo,     burgundy, more...



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