go on
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(verb) start running, functioning, or operating, as of lights or power |
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Synonyms: come on, come up |
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Related Words: get going, go, start |
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Antonyms: go off |
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(verb) continue to speak: "I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice." |
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Synonyms: carry on, continue, proceed |
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Related Words: jog, ramble, ramble on, segue, speak, talk |
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(verb) 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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Synonyms: continue, go along, keep, keep on, proceed |
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Related Words: act, hold, keep going, move, ride, run on |
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(verb) come to pass; occur: "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
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Synonyms: come about, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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Related Words: arise, bechance, befall, betide, break, chance, coincide, come, come around, come off, come up, concur, contemporize, develop, fall, give, go, go off, go over, happen, materialize, operate, proceed, recur, repeat, roll around, supervene, synchronize, transpire, turn out, work |
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(verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense: "Time marches on" |
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Synonyms: advance, march on, move on, pass on, progress |
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Related Words: close in, creep up, draw in, edge, elapse, encroach, forge, glide by, go, go along, go by, impinge, inch, infringe, lapse, locomote, move, overhaul, overtake, pass, plough on, press on, push on, rachet up, ratchet, ratchet down, slide by, slip away, slip by, sneak up, string, string along, travel |
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