persists
USpur-SISTS/pɚˈsɪsts/UKpuh-SISTS/pəˈsɪsts/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of persist.
The infection persists despite weeks of careful treatment.
A faint smell of smoke persists in the old kitchen.
Note
This form usually stands without an object: a cough persists, a rumor persists, a stubborn person persists. Nearly every meaning of persist is intransitive, whether it means pressing on resolutely or simply continuing to exist. The exception is a transitive use meaning to make something permanent, where an object follows the verb. An older linking use, meaning simply "remains," is now obsolete.
persists 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 → persists: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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