continued

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of continue.

   The negotiations continued for several more weeks.

   She has continued to volunteer at the shelter every weekend.

   Note

   A regular verb, so one spelling does two jobs. The simple past stands alone (talks continued), and the participle follows have or be. The passive needs care, because continue can also mean "put off": a hearing that is continued to Monday is adjourned, not prolonged. Before a noun, the participle settles into the "uninterrupted" adjective, as in continued support.

2. 2
   adjective

   Carrying on without interruption.

   The continued cooperation between the two teams ensured the project's success.

   Doctors credited her recovery to the continued care she received at home.

   Similarongoing, sustained, uninterrupted, constant, unbroken

   Oppositeintermittent, discontinued, sporadic

3. 3
   adjectivedated

   Prolonged and not stopped.

   Their continued resistance to reform frustrated the council for decades.

   Instead of becoming more continued, intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.

   1820, A. P. Wilson Philip, A Treatise on Fevers: Including the Various Species of Simple and Eruptive Fevers

   Similarprolonged, sustained, persistent, lasting, extended

   Oppositediscontinued

   Note

   An older use that could be graded, so writers spoke of something being more or less continued. Barr's 1797 translation of Buffon's Natural History calls for "a more continued sound" for F. A. P. Wilson Philip's Treatise on Fevers (1820) sets intermittent fevers against continued ones. That comparative now sounds dated. For a sustained sound or state, modern writing usually prefers continuing or ongoing.

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