verb
- Continue a certain state, condition, or activity.
- usage: "Keep on working"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"
- Come to pass.
- usage: "What is happening"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
- synonyms: happen, hap, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
- Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense.
- usage: "Time marches on"
- Continue talking.
- usage: "I know it's hard" he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on-pretend we are not in the room"
- Start running, functioning, or operating.
- usage: "the lights went on"; "the computer came up"
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