ongo

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verb

To be ongoing (occurring, happening); to last, proceed or continue.

RareScrabble 5

Meanings

verbongo (third-person singular simple present ongoes, present participle ongoing, simple past onwent, past participle ongone)

present singular third person ongoes · participle present ongoing · past onwent · participle past ongone

  1. To be ongoing (occurring, happening); to last, proceed or continue.

    And it ongoes far longer than Bill had intended.

    1981, Colin Fletcher, The Man from the Cave, page 164
    3 more examples

    we made way through town the main street blocked by broken houses and a smashed water main and stopping tried get policeman^([sic]) shoot a wounded horse but owner thought was still possibly worth saveing^([sic]) and onwent up toward mountain pass that leads to little catalan city of falset para

    1987, The Hemingway Review - Volume 7, page 103

    In two other senses, however, the astrophysical creation story ongoes still:

    1996, David Rosenberg, Communion: Contemporary Writers Reveal the Bible in Their Lives

    The discussion of the appropriateness of using the finite verb forms in examples (28) and (29) shows that the lexicalization process continues (or indeed “ongoes”), and it also gives some indication as to how the introduction process actually works in CMC.

    2013, Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling, Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis, →ISBN, page 233

Origin

From on- + go. Compare West Frisian oangean, Dutch aangaan, German Low German angahn, German angehen, Swedish angå.

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Translations

Māori moroki
  • morokito be continuing

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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