Definition of perseverate in English:

verb

• Repeat or prolong an action, thought, or utterance after the stimulus that prompted it has ceased.

  ‘they perseverate under stress’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Bitterman and Couvillon found that bees tended to perseverate - to choose the color for which they had most recently been rewarded.’
  • ‘So he was compensating for the uncertainty factor by perseverating on the stressor with which he was at least already familiar - that stressor being work.’
  • ‘I have a mild frontal lobe disorder that leads me to perseverate, and thus I've continued to work out the theory and do experiments anyway.’