persisted
USpur-SIS-tid/pɚˈsɪstɪd/UKpuh-SIS-tid/pəˈsɪstɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of persist.
The cough persisted for weeks despite the medicine.
He persisted in asking questions even after being told to stop.
Note
One regular -ed form does double duty: it stands alone in the past (the rain persisted) and follows have in the perfect (the rain has persisted). Most uses of persist take no object, so a passive is rare. The exception is the transitive meaning 'to make permanent', where something can itself be persisted. An older linking use, now obsolete, let persisted mean simply 'remained'.
persisted is a form of persist
persist, verb: To go on with an action stubbornly or resolutely, refusing to give up despite difficulty or opposition. Full entry
- Forms
- persistpersists he/she/itpersisting -ing formpersisted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- persist → persisted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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