0 past simple and past participle of persevere --
1 to try to do or continue doing something in a determined way, despite having problems: --
Despite receiving little support, the women are persevering with their crusade to fight crime.
The education director is persevering in his attempt to obtain additional funding for the school.
It looks as if the policy will be a success, providing that the government perseveres and does not give in to its critics.
I believe that this decision, if it is persevered in, will turn out to be a catastrophic mistake.
We have been grateful for the way in which he has persevered.
Plans for such people and their rehabilitation are always operative, and these should be extended and persevered with.
The way in which he has shoved at the wheel, persevered and found a way through many disappointments and difficulties is notable, whatever happens hereafter.
Things were not quite so easy as they could have been in the beginning, but the airline persevered.
But it was persevered with, became a successful civil aeroplane, and, behold!
Many obstacles have been put in the path of my noble friend—mostly legal—but he has rightly persevered.
But we persevered and there was no opposition to it eventually.
