| Main Entry: | challenge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispute, question |
Synonyms: |
accost, arouse, ask for, assert, beard, brave, call for, call out, claim, confront, cross, dare, defy, demand, denounce, exact, face down, face off, face the music, fly in the face of, hang in, impeach, impose, impugn, inquire, insist upon, investigate, invite competition, make a point of, make a stand, object to, provoke, query, reclaim, require, search out, stand up to, stick it out, stimulate, summon, tax, test, throw down the gauntlet, try, vindicate |
Antonyms: |
agreement, answer, decision, victory |
| Main Entry: | endure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bear hardship |
Synonyms: |
abide, accustom, allow, be patient with, bear the brunt, brave, brook, cope with, countenance, eat, encounter, experience, face, feel, go through, grin and bear it, hang in, keep up, know, live out, live through, meet with, never say die, permit, put up with, repress feelings, resign oneself, ride out, sit through, stand, stick, stick it out, stomach*, subject to, submit to, suffer, support, sustain, swallow*, take, take it, take patiently, tolerate, undergo, weather, withstand |
| Notes: | to endure means to put up with something or somebody unpleasant; to survive is to continue to live |
| Main Entry: | hang tough |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure |
Synonyms: |
be patient with, bear, bear the brunt, brave, cope with, face, go through, grin and bear it, gut it out, hang in, hang in there, keep up, live out, live through, meet with, never say die, put up with, ride out, sit through, stand, stick in there, stick it out, stomach*, suffer, swallow*, take, take it, tough it out, weather, withstand |
| Main Entry: | persist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carry on, carry through |
Synonyms: |
abide, be resolute, be stubborn, continue, endure, follow through, follow up*, go all the way, go on, go the limit, grind, hold on, insist, keep up, last, leave no stone unturned, linger, obtain, perdure, perseverate, persevere, prevail, pursue, recur, remain, repeat, see through, stick it out, stick to guns, strive, tough it out |
Antonyms: |
cease, give up, leave, quit, stop |
| Main Entry: | subsist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep going, living |
Synonyms: |
barely exist, be, breathe, continue, eke out a living, eke out an existence, endure, exist, get along, get by, hang in, hang on, hang tough, just make it, last, live, make ends meet, make it, manage, move, remain, remain alive, ride out, scrape by, stay alive, stick it out, stick with it, survive, sustain |
| Main Entry: | support |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure |
Synonyms: |
abide, bear, bear with, brook, carry on, continue, countenance, go, go through, handle, keep up, live with, maintain, put up with, stand, stand for, stay the course, stick it out, stomach*, submit, suffer, swallow*, sweat out, take, tolerate, undergo, wait out |
Antonyms: |
refuse, reject |
| Main Entry: | sweat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | worry about; bear |
Synonyms: |
abide, agonize, be on pins and needles, be on tenterhooks, brook, chafe, endure, exert, fret, go, labor, lose sleep over, stand, stay the course, stick it out, stomach*, suffer, take, toil, tolerate, torture, work hard |
Antonyms: |
be calm, ignore |
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure |
Synonyms: |
abide, accept, accommodate, bear, bear with, brave, brook, contain, give access, go, go through, grin and bear it, hack*, hang in, hang on, hang tough, hold, let in, live with, put up with, receive, ride out, stand, stand for, stick it out, stomach, submit to, suffer, swallow, take it, take it lying down, take it on the chin, tolerate, undergo, weather, welcome, withstand |
Antonyms: |
avoid, discontinue, dodge, refuse, reject, stop |
| Main Entry: | take it |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accept, endure |
Synonyms: |
acknowledge, agree, bear with, bite the bullet, capitulate, don't make waves, don't rock the boat, face the music, go along with, grin and bear it, hang tough, live with, play the game, put up with, sit still for, stand for, stick it out, stomach, submit to, suffer, swallow, take, take one's lumps, take one's medicine, tolerate |
| Main Entry: | weather |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure |
Synonyms: |
acclimate, bear the brunt of, bear up against, become toughened, brave, come through, expose, get through, grow hardened, grow strong, harden, make it, overcome, pull through, resist, ride out, rise above, season, stand, stick it out, suffer, surmount, survive, toughen, withstand |
Antonyms: |
refuse, reject |