Thesaurus / hang tough
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synonyms for hang tough
- be patient with
- bear
- bear the brunt
- brave
- cope with
- face
- go through
- grin and bear it
- gut it out
- hang in
- hang in there
- keep up
- live out
- live through
- meet with
- never say die
- put up with
- ride out
- sit through
- stand
- stick in there
- stick it out
- stomach
- suffer
- swallow
- take
- take it
- tough it out
- weather
- withstand
- adamant
- adamantine
- hardheaded
- inflexible
- intractable
- intransigent
- relentless
- stern
- stubborn
- uncompromising
- unyielding
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It'll be beastly dull for her at The Warren, you see, poor girl; and she doesn't seem to jump at Spunyarn, though he does hang on.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSPerhaps you will understand now that you ought to have asked my business ere you proposed to hang me off hand.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYBut this paper was a very tough, fibrous substance, and would resist quite a heavy blow as well as keep out the cold.
OUR LITTLE KOREAN COUSINH. LEE M. PIKEThese form one of the many island groups that hang like a fringe or festoon on the skirt of the continent of Asia.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADE"Tough—but most of us have been there, one time or another," Goodell observed sympathetically; and with that the subject rested.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRThe chair rests upon two long poles, which hang by straps upon the shoulders of four stout men.
OUR LITTLE KOREAN COUSINH. LEE M. PIKEHe fed the monkeys with candy, and laughed to see them hang by their tails while they took it from his hand.
THE NURSERY, JULY 1873, VOL. XIV. NO. 1VARIOUSAt a circuit dinner, a counsellor observed to another, "I shall certainly hang your client."
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSYou know that I come of tough fiber—of that old Creole race of Pontelliers that dry up and finally blow away.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINJessie, who was taking off her own outer garments to hang before the now roaring fire, only laughed at that.
THE CAMPFIRE GIRLS OF ROSELAWNMARGARET PENROSEWORDS RELATED TO HANG TOUGH
- baffled
- bearded
- braved
- confronted
- contemned
- dared
- defeated
- derided
- despised
- disregarded
- eluded
- faced
- flew in face of
- flouted
- foiled
- fronted
- gibed
- hung tough
- hurled defiance at
- ignored
- insulted
- made my day
- mocked
- opposed
- outdared
- provoked
- repelled
- repulsed
- resisted
- ridiculed
- scorned
- slighted
- spurned
- stuck
- stuck fast
- thwarted
- took one on
- ventured
- violated
- withstood
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- contemns
- dares
- defeats
- derides
- despises
- disregards
- eludes
- faces
- flies in face of
- flouts
- foils
- fronts
- gibes
- hangs tough
- hurls defiance at
- ignores
- insults
- makes my day
- mocks
- opposes
- outdares
- provokes
- repels
- repulses
- resists
- ridicules
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- slights
- spurns
- sticks
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- takes one on
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- ventures
- violates
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- baffle
- beard
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- confront
- contemn
- dare
- defeat
- deride
- despise
- disregard
- elude
- face
- face off
- flout
- fly in face of
- foil
- front
- gibe
- hang tough
- hurl defiance at
- ignore
- insult
- make my day
- mock
- oppose
- outdare
- provoke
- repel
- repulse
- resist
- ridicule
- scorn
- slight
- spurn
- stick
- stick fast
- take one on
- thwart
- venture
- violate
- withstand
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- intransigent
- locked
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- stubborn
- tenacious
- tough
- tough nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
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