press on en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) To persist, to continue to advance.
And now she has the real dilemma: press on to King’s Landing, where I have no doubt she could get as close to killing Cersei as anyone else, or double back to Winterfell to reunite with her family.
2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:British Railways are, however, pressing on with the introduction of standard equipment, and in this, the fourth year of unified working, standard locomotives and rolling stock will be coming into service in considerable numbers.
1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 225:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pressed on | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| pressed on | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| presses on | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| pressing on | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (7)
pl przeć (continue to advance) · pl dążyć (continue to advance) · mi whakatorotoro (continue to advance) · cy bwrw ymlaen (continue to advance) · mi hota (continue to advance) · bg упорствам (continue to advance) · ru упорствовать (continue to advance)