EGAVE

carry on

About 8.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To continue or proceed as before.
    I’ll be gone for a few days, but I hope you will carry on in my absence.
  2. verb To continue, maintain or pursue (an activity or enterprise).
    to carry on commerce in a market
  3. verb To persist, persevere.
    keep calm and carry on
  4. verb To talk continuously or prolongedly (about something), often in an excessively excited way.
    He’s always carrying on about his stupid aquarium.
  5. verb To act or behave; especially, to misbehave so as to attract attention; to make a fuss; to behave ostentatiously.
    I really wish you wouldn't carry on like that in public!
  6. verb To have an illicit sexual or flirtatious relationship.
    I thought he was my friend, but all the time he was carrying on with my wife!
  7. verb To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it.
    You may only carry on items that are smaller than a certain size.
  8. noun alternative spelling of carry-on

Similar words

continue go on proceed bear on uphold carry out conduct deal preserve keep on

Word family

carried on carries on carrying on

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