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abide

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of ABIDE

to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time <refused to abide where it was clear that he wasn't wanted>

Synonyms abide, dwell, hang around, remain, stick around, tarry

Related Words await, hang on, hold on, wait; dally, dawdle, linger, loiter; outstay, overstay

Near Antonyms abscond, book [slang], decamp, escape, evacuate, flee, fly, get out, run away, scat, scram, skip; abandon, desert, forsake, vacate

Antonyms bail, bail out, bug out, buzz (off), clear off [chiefly British], clear out, cut out, depart, exit, get off, go, go off, leave, move, pack (up or off), peel off, pike (out or off), pull out, push off, push on, quit, shove (off), take off, vamoose, walk out

to have a home <the charming fantasy that fairies abide in the cup-shaped flowers dotting the woodland floor>

Synonyms abide, dwell, reside

Related Words lodge, settle, stay; frequent, hang (at), haunt, visit; cohabit, inhabit, occupy; people, populate; lease, rent, sublet, tenant

to put up with (something painful or difficult) <cannot abide being in huge crowds>

Synonyms abide, absorb, accept, bide [chiefly dialect], brook, countenance, endure, go, hack, handle, meet, pocket, stand, stick out, stomach, support, sustain, sweat out, take, tolerate, wear [British]

Related Words allow, permit, suffer, swallow; reconcile (to); acquiesce, agree (with or to), assent (to), capitulate, consent (to), respect, submit (to), yield (to)

Near Antonyms decline, dismiss, refuse, reject, repudiate, spurn, turn down; combat, contest, fight, oppose, resist; avoid, bypass, circumvent, dodge, elude, escape, evade, miss; abstain (from), forbear, refrain (from)

to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state <the village's once-honored ways no longer abide and now exist only in the memories of a few elders>

Synonyms abide, bide, endure, hold on, hold up, keep up, last, perdure, persist, remain, run on

Related Words linger, stay, stick around, tarry; carry through, prevail, survive

Near Antonyms abate, die (down), ebb, let up, moderate, subside, wane

Antonyms cease, close, conclude, desist, die, discontinue, end, expire, finish, lapse, leave off, pass, quit, stop, terminate, wind up

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