Dictionary Entry
continue
continue is a 8-letter English word with 17 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
- 2intransitive verb
To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.
- 3intransitive verb
To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.
- 4transitive verb
To unite; to connect.
- 5transitive verb
To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.
- 6transitive verb
To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.
- 7transitive verb
To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.
- 8verb
exist over a prolonged period of time
"The bad weather continued for two more weeks"
- 9verb
continue talking he continued, "but there is no choice"
"I know it's hard,"
"carry on--pretend we are not in the room"
Synonyms
- 10verb
move ahead; travel onward in time or space
"We proceeded towards Washington"
"She continued in the direction of the hills"
Synonyms
- 11verb
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"
- 12verb
keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
"preserve the peace in the family"
"continue the family tradition"
- 13verb
continue a certain state, condition, or activity
"Keep on working!"
"We continued to work into the night"
- 14verb
span an interval of distance, space or time
"The war extended over five years"
"The period covered the turn of the century"
- 15verb
continue in a place, position, or situation
"After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"
"Stay with me, please"
- 16verb
continue after an interruption
"The demonstration continued after a break for lunch"
- 17verb
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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