go on
1. continue a certain state, condition, or activity (Freq. 44)
- Keep on working!
- We continued to work into the night
- Keep smiling
- We went on working until well past midnight
• Syn:
continue, proceed, go along, keep
• Ant:
discontinue (for: continue)
• Derivationally related forms:
continuation (for: continue), continuance (for: continue)
• Hypernyms:
act, move
• Hyponyms:
hold, run on, keep going, ride
• Verb Group:
continue, uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s VERB-ing
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Something ----s (for: continue)
- Somebody ----s (for: continue)
- They go on moving
2. come to pass (Freq. 24)
- What is happening?
- The meeting took place off without an incidence
- Nothing occurred that seemed important
• Syn:
happen, hap, pass off, occur, pass,
fall out, come about, take place
• Derivationally related forms:
hap (for: hap), happening (for: happen)
• Hyponyms:
break, recrudesce, develop, arise, come up,
result, intervene, transpire, give, operate, supervene,
proceed, go, come, fall, anticipate, recur,
repeat, go off, come off, go over, come around, roll around,
happen, materialize, materialise, befall, bechance, betide,
concur, coincide, backfire, backlash, recoil, chance,
chance, strike, turn out, synchronize, synchronise,
contemporize, contemporise
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- It ----s that CLAUSE
3. move forward, also in the metaphorical sense (Freq. 23)
- Time marches on
• Syn:
advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on
• Ant:
recede (for: advance)
• Derivationally related forms:
progress (for: progress), progression (for: progress), advancement (for: advance), advance (for: advance), advancer (for: advance)
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Hyponyms:
forge, penetrate, creep up, sneak up, encroach,
infringe, impinge, press on, push on, plough on, string,
string along, pass, overtake, overhaul, close in, draw in,
edge, inch, ratchet, rachet up, ratchet down, elapse,
elapse, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by,
slide by, go along
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
4. continue talking (Freq. 17)
- I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice
- carry on--pretend we are not in the room
• Syn:
continue, carry on, proceed
• Derivationally related forms:
continuation (for: continue)
• Hypernyms:
talk, speak
• Hyponyms:
segue, ramble on, ramble, jog
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- Somebody ----s VERB-ing
5. start running, functioning, or operating (Freq. 3)
- the lights went on
- the computer came up
• Syn:
come up, come on
• Ant:
go off
• Hypernyms:
start, go, get going
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
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