"keep going" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-us-keep going.ogg [Mid-Atlantic] Forms: keeps going [present, singular, third-person], keeping going [participle, present], kept going [participle, past], kept going [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> going}} 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. Tags: intransitive Translations (To continue functioning.): continuer de fonctionner (French)
    Sense id: en-keep_going-en-verb-WbVmJZMw Disambiguation of 'To continue functioning.': 85 7 8
  2. (transitive) To proceed; to make progress, physically or figuratively. Tags: transitive Translations (To make progress, physically or figuratively.): continuer de faire (French)
    Sense id: en-keep_going-en-verb-vfR7vnpO Disambiguation of 'To make progress, physically or figuratively.': 2 88 10
  3. (transitive) To see that (a person) is continually supplied with something, or that they can progress or carry on. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-keep_going-en-verb-67MCHYTi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English light verb constructions, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 10 72 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 11 8 81 Disambiguation of English light verb constructions: 13 11 76 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 13 9 77

Inflected forms

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