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Proceed   /prəsˈid/  /proʊsˈid/  /pərsˈid/   Listen
Proceed

verb
(past & past part. proceeded; pres. part. proceeding)
1.
Continue talking.  Synonyms: carry on, continue, go on.  "But there is no choice" , "Carry on--pretend we are not in the room"
2.
Move ahead; travel onward in time or space.  Synonyms: continue, go forward.  "She continued in the direction of the hills" , "We are moving ahead in time now"
3.
Follow a procedure or take a course.  Synonyms: go, move.  "She went through a lot of trouble" , "Go about the world in a certain manner" , "Messages must go through diplomatic channels"
4.
Follow a certain course.  Synonym: go.  "How did your interview go?"
5.
Continue a certain state, condition, or activity.  Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, keep.  "We continued to work into the night" , "Keep smiling" , "We went on working until well past midnight"  Antonym: discontinue.



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"Proceed" Quotes from Famous Books



... refuge to a doubt. Finally, he believed both in fate and in free-will, in good and evil as powers at internecine war, and in the greater strength and triumph of good at some very far distant date. If we desire to know more of Carlyle's creed we must proceed by "the method of exclusions," and note, in the first place, what he did not believe. This process is simplified by the fact that he assailed all ...
— Thomas Carlyle - Biography • John Nichol

... employment opportunities for the swelling Saudi population. Priorities for government spending in the short term include additional funds for education and for the water and sewage systems. Economic reforms proceed cautiously because of deep-rooted political ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... powder, and neither could testify as to the true character of Spike's connection with the schooner. It was manifestly necessary, therefore, independently of the risks that might be run by "bearding the lion in his den," to proceed with ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper

... cord, or whatever it may be by which the person has been suspended. Open the temporal artery or jugular vein, or bleed from the arm; employ electricity, if at hand, and proceed as for drowning, taking the additional precaution to apply eight or ten ...
— One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed • C. A. Bogardus

... "We proceed straight on our way, passing through every mire, running along the verge of every abyss; and we are the most industrious, ...
— The Temptation of St. Antony - or A Revelation of the Soul • Gustave Flaubert


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