- to continue; to keep up; to keep on
Ichidan verb; transitive verb; auxiliary verb
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- to continue; to keep up; to keep on
This meaning indicates persistence or maintaining an action over time. It can refer to continuing an activity, conversation, or any process without interruption.
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It is difficult to keep up a conversation with someone who only says "yes" and "no".
If Spenser doesn't keep adding and translating sentences, the other contributors will surely surpass him.
Even if we don't get lucky on the first try we can just keep fucking till I get pregnant.
A strong veteran, having trained for tens of years, can fall to a weakling in a moment of laxness. That's what the martial arts world is.
Up till now America has called itself the world's police and continued suppression relying on military force.
In order to continue to challenge new things, in order to meet new needs, we work day in day out in R&D.
Having idled jobless for a while I wavered. I'd rushed into handing in my notice but maybe I should have endured it and kept going...
If you continue with the pointless arguments here...it'll end up as a repeat of yesterday.
"How are things going?" "Terrific. Income and profit are continuing to rise steadily."