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Continue
- verb - allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; "She retained her composure"; "this garment retains its shape even after many washings"
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"
- continue after an interruption; "The demonstration continued after a break for lunch"
- continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"
- continue talking; "I know it's hard," he con
Contline
- - The space between the strands on the outside of a rope.
Contrate
- - Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it.
Contrite
- adjective - feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
Contrive
- verb - come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
- make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
- put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"
Converge
- verb - approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit
- be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point"
- come together so as to form a single product; "Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power"
- move or draw together at a certain location; "The crowd converged on the movie star"
Converse
- adjective - a proposition obtained by conversion
- carry on a conversation
- of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other; "`parental' and `filial' are converse terms"
- talked , spoke
- turned about in order or relation; "transposed letters"
Convince
- verb - make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; "He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product"
Convolve
- verb - curl, wind, or twist together
Convulse
- verb - be overcome with laughter
- cause to contract; "The spasm convulses her facial muscles"
- contract involuntarily, as in a spasm; "The muscles in her face convulsed"
- make someone convulse with laughter; "The comedian convulsed the crowd"
- move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
- shake uncontrollably; "earthquakes convulsed the countryside"