carry on | | |
v. (social) | 1. carry on, conduct, deal | direct the course of; manage or control.; "You cannot conduct business like this" |
| ~ handle, manage, care, deal | be in charge of, act on, or dispose of.; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old" |
| ~ racketeer | carry on illegal business activities involving crime. |
v. (stative) | 2. bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold | 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" |
| ~ resume, re-start, restart | take up or begin anew.; "We resumed the negotiations" |
| ~ hang in, persevere, hang on, persist, hold on | be persistent, refuse to stop.; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions" |
| ~ go forward, proceed, continue | move ahead; travel onward in time or space.; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now" |
| ~ perpetuate | cause to continue or prevail.; "perpetuate a myth" |
| ~ sustain, keep up, prolong | lengthen or extend in duration or space.; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work" |
| ~ mummify | preserve while making lifeless.; "mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of" |
| ~ hold, keep, maintain | keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g.,.; "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes" |
| ~ continue, go on, go along, 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" |
v. (communication) | 3. 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. (social) | 4. act up, carry on | misbehave badly; act in a silly or improper way.; "The children acted up when they were not bored" |
| ~ misbehave, misconduct, misdemean | behave badly.; "The children misbehaved all morning" |
erase | | |
v. (change) | 1. erase, wipe out | remove from memory or existence.; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" |
| ~ kill | cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" |
v. (contact) | 2. efface, erase, rub out, score out, wipe off | remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing.; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!" |
| ~ rub | move over something with pressure.; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin" |
| ~ sponge | erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard. |
| ~ delete, cancel | remove or make invisible.; "Please delete my name from your list" |
| ~ scratch out, cut out | strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out.; "scratch out my name on that list" |
v. (communication) | 3. delete, erase | wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information.; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?" |
| ~ recording, transcription | the act of making a record (especially an audio record).; "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth" |
| ~ take away, take out | take out or remove.; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables" |
| ~ demagnetise, demagnetize | erase (a magnetic storage device). |
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