Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to continue functioning 2 (context transitive English) to continue
WordNet
v. continue uninterrupted; "The disease will run on unchecked"; "The party kept going until 4 A.M." [syn: run on]
suffice for a period between two points; "This money will keep us going for another year" [syn: tide over, bridge over]
allow to remain in a place or position; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could" [syn: retain, continue, keep, keep on]
be a regular customer or client of; "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could" [syn: patronize, patronise, patronage, support]
Usage examples of "keep going".
We just keep going round and round, but we dont have to make the same decisions every time.
Once started on a course, no matter how futile, no matter how many you hurt, you keep going rather than admit you've made a mistake.
Sloan was definitely cash-poor from gambling losses and had been using his credit cards to keep going.
In such theatres work appealing to a relatively small class of cultivated persons, and therefore attracting only from half to three-quarters as many spectators as the more popular pastimes, could nevertheless keep going in the hands of young adventurers who were doing it for its own sake, and had not yet been forced by advancing age and responsibilities to consider the commercial value of their time and energy too closely.
But there were the rough coated, smaller mounts kept for hunting in the hills, able to withstand hardship and keep going far past the exhaustion point of the costlier animals Fulk fancied for his own riding.
I can't tell anything until we match the droppings with the animal samples that we have currently, and keep going.
She slowed down, by necessity, but fought on, determined to keep going.
I figured the frustrations of the day would push him to keep going, so I tried his desk at the station.
Tenoctris had a wonderful ability to keep going as long as her skill was needed, but the effort still had to be paid for.