continue
IPA: kʌntˈɪnju
noun
- (video games) An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.
verb
- (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
- (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
- (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
- (intransitive, copulative sense obsolete) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
- (intransitive) To resume.
- (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
- (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
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Examples of "continue" in Sentences
- Musicals continued at the Gaiety.
- But the expulsions continued relentlessly.
- The inchoate process has evidently continued to progress.
- Ever the trooper, he continued undaunted with the ceremony.
- The 1980s progressed and the student body continued to dwindle.
- The Chinese continued to resist stubbornly and no progress was made.
- The government's stance on saccharin has continued to waver ever since.