All persist antonyms

verb persist

• ebb and flow — tidal movement
• waver — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
• hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• commute — If you commute, you travel a long distance every day between your home and your place of work.
• fluctuate — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
• make good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
• let slide — to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface: to slide down a snow-covered hill.
• inversed — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
• inversing — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• fluffing — light, downy particles, as of cotton.
• fluffed — Simple past tense and past participle of fluff.
• invert — to turn upside down.
• grow into — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
• evert — Turn (a structure or organ) outward or inside out.
• drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
• everted — Simple past tense and past participle of evert.
• deeded — something that is done, performed, or accomplished; an act: Do a good deed every day.
• give over — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• flip-flopping — Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• inactivate — to make inactive: The bomb was inactivated.
• intermit — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
• detouring — Present participle of detour.
• intermitted — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• handed — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
• change — If there is a change in something, it becomes different.
• introverting — a shy person.
• intermitting — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• zigzagged — a line, course, or progression characterized by sharp turns first to one side and then to the other.
• bobble — A bobble is a small ball of material, usually made of wool, which is used for decorating clothes.
• come and go — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
• lay aside — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• hook up — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• zigzagging — Present participle of zigzag.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• desist — If you desist from doing something, you stop doing it.
• dithering — a trembling; vibration.
• drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
• whiffle — to blow in light or shifting gusts or puffs, as the wind; veer or toss about irregularly.
• wigwag — Nautical. the act or process of sending messages by the movements of two flags or the like waved according to a code.
• flipflop — Alternative form of flip-flop.
• hang fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
• whiffling — to blow in light or shifting gusts or puffs, as the wind; veer or toss about irregularly.
• break it up — stop fighting
• yoyo — a spoollike toy consisting of two thick wooden, plastic, or metal disks connected by a dowel pin in the center to which a string is attached, one end being looped around the player's finger so that the toy can be spun out and reeled in by wrist motion.
• falter — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
• lay over — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• make over — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.