keep on
Verb
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Verb
keep on (third-person singular simple present keeps on, present participle keeping on, simple past and past participle kept on)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To persist or continue.
- Keep on trucking!
- Mum, Jimmy keeps on poking me!
- Synonyms: continue, go on
- 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC ↗:
- The young woman kept on down Front Street, Warwick maintaining his distance a few rods behind her.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To persist in talking about a subject to the annoyance of the listener.
- For goodness sake, will you stop keeping on about it!
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cause or allow to remain in an existing position.
- The new boss would like to keep on the present secretary.
- German: weiter machen, weiter
- Italian: continuare, persistere, mantenere
- Russian: продолжа́ть
- Spanish: seguir
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