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continued

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kənˈtɪn.juːd//
  • Canada//kənˈtɪn.jud//

Uninterrupted.

adjective

  1. 1

    datedProlonged; unstopped.

    1797, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, J. S. Barr (editor and translator), Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hiſtory, page 20, […] and for the pronunciation of F, a more continued ſound is neceſſary than for that of any of the conſonants.

    Instead of becoming more continued, intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.

  2. 2

    Uninterrupted.

  3. 3

    Resumed after a division or pause.

    This article is continued on page 57.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of continuesimple past and past participle of continue

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