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keep_going

keep going

English

Verb

keep going (third-person singular simple present keeps going, present participle keeping going, simple past and past participle kept going)

  1. (intransitive) to continue functioning
    The grandfather clock keeps going for over a week without winding.
  2. (transitive) to continue
    • 2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC:
      The Gunners have never gone out of the FA Cup in the third round under Arsene Wenger and never lost to a lower division side, two impressive runs they kept going at Elland Road on an evening that was fraught with potential dangers.