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continue

English

  1. 🔊 exist over a prolonged period of time
    “The bad weather continued for two more weeks”
  2. 🔊 continue talking
    “`I know it's hard', he continued, `but there is no choice'”
  3. 🔊 keep or maintain in unaltered condition
    “preserve the peace in the family”
  4. 🔊 continue a certain state, condition, or activity
    “Keep on working!”
  5. 🔊 continue after an interruption
    “The demonstration continued after a break for lunch”
  6. 🔊 do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop
    “We continued our research into the cause of the illness”
  7. 🔊 allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
    “We cannot continue several servants any longer”
  8. 🔊 span an interval of distance, space or time
    “The war extended over five years”
  9. 🔊 move ahead
    “We proceeded towards Washington”
  10. 🔊 continue in a place, position, or situation
    “After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 seguir to continue, to keep up
  2. 🔊 continuar to continue, to carry on
  3. 🔊 continuar to continue, to be continued
  4. 🔊 proseguir to continue, go on (resume (especially speaking))

Similar words

go on carry on proceed proceed go forward retain keep keep on uphold carry on bear on preserve go on proceed go along keep cover extend stay stay on remain persist in abide adjourn