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keep on (third-person singular simple presentkeeps on,present participlekeeping on,simple past and past participlekept on)

(transitive, idiomatic) Topersist orcontinue.
Synonyms:continue,go on
Keep on trucking!
Mum, Jimmykeeps on poking me!
- 1900,Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, inThe House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.:Houghton, Mifflin and Company […],→OCLC:
  The young womankept on down Front Street, Warwick maintaining his distance a few rods behind her.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To persist in talking about a subject to the annoyance of the listener.
For goodness sake, will you stopkeeping on about it!
(transitive, idiomatic) To cause or allow toremain in anexistingposition.
The new boss would like tokeep the present secretaryon.
- 2010, Brian Glanville,The Story of the World Cup: The Essential Companion to South Africa 2010, London: Faber and Faber,→ISBN,page361:
  The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part hekept himon.
1. (transitive, idiomatic) To cause or allow toremain in theon oropen position.
  Synonym:leave on
  Antonyms:turn off,shut off
  Coordinate term:turn on
  Should I turn off this light orkeep iton?
  Should I shut off this water orkeep iton?

persist or continue

remain in position

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