verb
1. continue a certain state, condition, or activity (Freq. 44)
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Keep on working!
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We continued to work into the night
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Keep smiling
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We went on working until well past midnight
• Ant: ↑discontinue (for: ↑continue)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑continuation (for: ↑continue), ↑continuance (for: ↑continue)
• Hyponyms: ↑hold, ↑run on, ↑keep going, ↑ride
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s VERB-ing
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Something ——s
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Somebody ——s
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They go on moving
2. come to pass (Freq. 24)
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What is happening?
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The meeting took place off without an incidence
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Nothing occurred that seemed important
• Syn:
• Hyponyms:
↑break, ↑recrudesce, ↑develop, ↑arise, ↑come up, ↑result, ↑intervene, ↑transpire, ↑give, ↑operate, ↑supervene, ↑proceed, ↑go, ↑come, ↑fall, ↑anticipate, ↑recur, ↑repeat, ↑go off, ↑come off, ↑go over, ↑come around, ↑roll around, ↑happen, ↑materialize, ↑materialise, ↑befall, ↑bechance, ↑betide, ↑concur, ↑coincide, ↑backfire, ↑backlash, ↑recoil, ↑chance, ↑shine, ↑strike, ↑turn out, ↑synchronize, ↑synchronise, ↑contemporize, ↑contemporise
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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Something is ——ing PP
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It ——s that CLAUSE
3. move forward, also in the metaphorical sense (Freq. 23)
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Time marches on
• Derivationally related forms: ↑progress (for: ↑progress), ↑progression (for: ↑progress), ↑advancement (for: ↑advance), ↑advance (for: ↑advance), ↑advancer (for: ↑advance)
• Hyponyms:
↑forge, ↑penetrate, ↑creep up, ↑sneak up, ↑encroach, ↑infringe, ↑impinge, ↑press on, ↑push on, ↑plough on, ↑string, ↑string along, ↑pass, ↑overtake, ↑overhaul, ↑close in, ↑draw in, ↑edge, ↑inch, ↑ratchet, ↑rachet up, ↑ratchet down, ↑elapse, ↑lapse, ↑slip by, ↑glide by, ↑slip away, ↑go by, ↑slide by, ↑go along
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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Somebody ——s
4. continue talking (Freq. 17)
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I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice
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carry on—pretend we are not in the room
• Derivationally related forms: ↑continuation (for: ↑continue)
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
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Somebody ——s to INFINITIVE
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Somebody ——s VERB-ing
5. start running, functioning, or operating (Freq. 3)
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the lights went on
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the computer came up
• Ant: ↑go off
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
Useful english dictionary. 2012.