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PERSEVERATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they perseverate ... he / she / it perseverates
Past simple: perseverated
Past participle: perseverated
-ing form: perseverating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus
Example:
The subjects in this study perseverated
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "perseverate" is one way to...):
ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell (to say, state, or perform again)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
perseveration (the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior)
