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(v)
(transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
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(idiomatic, intransitive) To continue or proceed as before.
(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
(intransitive) To continue an action.
(transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
(transitive, idiomatic) To persist or continue.
To participate, cooperate, or conform.
To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
move ahead; travel onward in time or space
To help the progress of (something); to further.
(intransitive) To begin, start.
(n)
Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
(ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
The beginning of an activity.
(transitive) To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.
To move toward the speaker.
(transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
(ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
To change place.
(intransitive, of time) To pass or move by.
(transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(transitive) To finish successfully.
(intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
(intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
(intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
(education) The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
(transitive) To make whole or entire.
(transitive) To advance, promote.
(transitive) To experience; to pass through a phase.
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
(African-American Vernacular, Southern US, Cockney, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.
(ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
To make or become physically unobstructed, uncovered, etc.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
(transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case
(transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm.
(intransitive) To happen or take place.
(intransitive) To occur or take place.
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
(transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
(intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with).
To utilize or employ.
(transitive) To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.
(intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action. [with in]
(ambitransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
(transitive) To create.
(transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
(transitive) To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)
(transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
(intransitive) To come from a source; issue from.
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
(intransitive or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
(transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
(intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
(transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
(transitive) To begin; to start.
To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
To move swiftly.
(transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
(transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
(intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
(intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
(transitive) To make or bring about; to implement.
(transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
To bring or transport something to its destination.
(transitive) To possess, own.
(transitive) To watch over; to guard.
To retain (someone) as an employee.
(transitive) To lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to reveal.
(transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
(transitive, figurative) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
(intransitive) To meet at an agreed time and place.
A continuation.
(transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
(transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something).
(adj)
Necessary; obligatory; mandatory.
(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
(transitive, law) To start criminal proceedings against.
Uninterrupted.
The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession
To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
(transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
(transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action.
(transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
(transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)