Continue and Substitute

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

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Substitute is an antonym for continue.

Substitute verb - To give up (something) and take something else in return.

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Continue is an antonym for substitute in interchange topic.

name	continue name	substitute name
line	continue line	substitute line
search	continue search	substitute search
song	continue song	substitute song
Other words: mission, experiment.

Instead, he plans to continue selling genuine human blood to high-paying clients who prefer the real thing to the substitute, just as many people prefer the taste of real meat to any substitute.

Source: Film / Daybreakers
Determinator: Escalante, after being hospitalized for a heart attack and denied to continue working, writes class notes on paper napkins and has a nurse smuggle them to his students so they can continue studying despite the incompetent substitute teacher.

Source: Film / Stand and Deliver
Rapid-Fire Nail Biting: One of the possum twins bites off his own nails, then his brother offers him one of his hands so he can continue biting Raptor Attack: Averted, for Guanlong (a primitive tyrannosaur) is used as a substitute for raptors.

Source: Western Animation / Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

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