Continue and Pausing

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Continue verb - To remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state.

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Pausing is an antonym for continue.

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Continue is an antonym for pausing in wait topic.

Nearby Words: pause, paused

In the Monty Python's Flying Circus episode The Cycling Tour, John Cleese is a Soviet officer making a speech in Russian to fellow Soviets, pausing for the subtitles to show, and then says in Russian, "Forgive me if I continue in English in order to save time."

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One species commits mass suicide to escape them; rather than rethink their system the souls cheerily continue infesting the ones who didn't escape in time, pausing only briefly to regret the waste of host bodies.

Source: Literature / The Host

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