continued
adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//kənˈtɪn.juːd//
- Canada//kənˈtɪn.jud//
Uninterrupted.
adjective
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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.
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Uninterrupted.
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Resumed after a division or pause.
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verb
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Also a form of continuesimple past and past participle of continue