continue
Verbs
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(v) continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- Keep on working!
- We continued to work into the night
- Keep smiling
- We went on working until well past midnight
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(v) continue talking
- "I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice"
- carry on--pretend we are not in the room
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(v) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- preserve the peace in the family
- continue the family tradition
- Carry on the old traditions
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(v) move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- We proceeded towards Washington
- She continued in the direction of the hills
- We are moving ahead in time now
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(v) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- We cannot continue several servants any longer
- She retains a lawyer
- The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff
- Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on
- We kept the work going as long as we could
- She retained her composure
- this garment retains its shape even after many washings
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(v) do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop
- We continued our research into the cause of the illness
- The landlord persists in asking us to move
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(v) continue after an interruption
- The demonstration continued after a break for lunch
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(v) continue in a place, position, or situation
- After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser
- Stay with me, please
- despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year
- She continued as deputy mayor for another year
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(v) span an interval of distance, space or time
- The war extended over five years
- The period covered the turn of the century
- My land extends over the hills on the horizon
- This farm covers some 200 acres
- The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles
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(v) exist over a prolonged period of time
- The bad weather continued for two more weeks