| go on | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. continue, go along, go on, keep, proceed | continue a certain state, condition, or activity.; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight" |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| ~ preserve, uphold, carry on, continue, bear on | keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last.; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions" |
| ~ hold | remain in a certain state, position, or condition.; "The weather held"; "They held on the road and kept marching" |
| ~ keep going, run on | continue uninterrupted.; "The disease will run on unchecked"; "The party kept going until 4 A.M." |
| ~ ride | continue undisturbed and without interference.; "Let it ride" |
| ~ continue | continue after an interruption.; "The demonstration continued after a break for lunch" |
| v. (change) | 2. come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| ~ recrudesce, develop, break | happen.; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time" |
| ~ come up, arise | result or issue.; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion" |
| ~ result | come about or follow as a consequence.; "nothing will result from this meeting" |
| ~ intervene | occur between other event or between certain points of time.; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children" |
| ~ transpire | come about, happen, or occur.; "Several important events transpired last week" |
| ~ give | occur.; "what gives?" |
| ~ operate | happen.; "What is going on in the minds of the people?" |
| ~ supervene | take place as an additional or unexpected development. |
| ~ proceed, go | follow a certain course.; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?" |
| ~ come | come to pass; arrive, as in due course.; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June" |
| ~ fall | occur at a specified time or place.; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable" |
| ~ anticipate | be a forerunner of or occur earlier than.; "This composition anticipates Impressionism" |
| ~ develop | be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest.; "The plot developed slowly" |
| ~ recur, repeat | happen or occur again.; "This is a recurring story" |
| ~ come off, go over, go off | happen in a particular manner.; "how did your talk go over?" |
| ~ roll around, come around | happen regularly.; "Christmas rolled around again" |
| ~ materialise, materialize, happen | come into being; become reality.; "Her dream really materialized" |
| ~ bechance, befall, happen | happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance.; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" |
| ~ bechance, befall, betide | become of; happen to.; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?" |
| ~ coincide, concur | happen simultaneously.; "The two events coincided" |
| ~ backfire, backlash, recoil | come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect.; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble" |
| ~ chance | be the case by chance.; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street" |
| ~ break | happen or take place.; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months" |
| ~ fall, shine, strike | touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" |
| ~ turn out | prove to be in the result or end.; "It turns out that he was right" |
| ~ contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize | happen at the same time. |
| v. (motion) | 3. advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress | move forward, also in the metaphorical sense.; "Time marches on" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| ~ forge | move ahead steadily.; "He forged ahead" |
| ~ penetrate | make one's way deeper into or through.; "The hikers did not manage to penetrate the dense forest" |
| ~ creep up, sneak up | advance stealthily or unnoticed.; "Age creeps up on you" |
| ~ encroach, impinge, infringe | advance beyond the usual limit. |
| ~ plough on, press on, push on | continue moving forward. |
| ~ string along, string | move or come along. |
| ~ overhaul, overtake, pass | travel past.; "The sports car passed all the trucks" |
| ~ close in, draw in | advance or converge on.; "The police were closing in on him" |
| ~ edge, inch | advance slowly, as if by inches.; "He edged towards the car" |
| ~ rachet up, ratchet, ratchet down | move by degrees in one direction only.; "a ratcheting lopping tool" |
| ~ elapse, glide by, go by, slide by, slip by, slip away, go along, pass, lapse | pass by.; "three years elapsed" |
| v. (communication) | 4. carry on, continue, go on, proceed | continue talking.; "I know it's hard,"; "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room" |
| ~ segue | proceed without interruption; in music or talk.; "He segued into another discourse" |
| ~ talk, speak | exchange thoughts; talk with.; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words" |
| ~ jog, ramble, ramble on | continue talking or writing in a desultory manner.; "This novel rambles on and jogs" |
| v. (contact) | 5. come on, come up, go on | start running, functioning, or operating.; "the lights went on"; "the computer came up" |
| ~ get going, start, go | begin or set in motion.; "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!" |
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