continue
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
continue/kənˈtɪnjuː/
▶verb (continues, continuing, continued)
- 1 persist in an activity or process.
■ remain in existence, operation, or a specified state.
- 2 carry on with.
■ carry on travelling in the same direction.
- 3 recommence or resume.
- 4 US Law postpone or adjourn (legal proceedings).
– derivatives
continuable adjective,
continuator noun,
continuer noun.
continuable adjective,
continuator noun,
continuer noun.
'continue' also found in these Oxford entries:
blackleg
- break
- carry
- chase
- continual
- dispense
- dissertation
- distance
- down and out
- end
- enormity
- entertain
- extend
- follow
- go
- haybox
- hold
- hyphen
- jog
- keep
- last
- limitation
- lock-in
- maintain
- pension
- perpetrate
- perpetuate
- persevere
- persist
- point
- pray
- press
- proceed
- produce
- prosecute
- pursue
- push
- rage
- rally
- rate
- remain
- resume
- retain
- return
- rumble
- run
- St Swithin's day
- self-sustaining
- set
