keep on doing sth
— phrasal verb with keep uk/kiːp/us/kiːp/verb kept, kept
B1 to continue to do something, or to do something again and again:
She kept on asking me questions the whole time.
More examples
- If you keep on trying, you'll be able to stretch further.
- He keeps on being late.
- If you keep on being rude, you will have to leave the classroom.
- If they keep on eating that much, they will become obese.
- They kept on getting lost.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Continue & last
- (it's) business as usual idiom
- bash on
- carry (sth) on
- cease
- cont
- contd
- drag
- keep at sth
- keep on trucking idiom
- keep sb at it idiom
- keep sth up
- nine
- push
- run over (sth)
- see sth out
- segue
- soldier on
- spill
- stick
- string
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