(video games) An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of continue

Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption. / Without intervening space; continued. / (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

Recurring in steady, rapid succession. / (proscribed) Seemingly continuous; appearing to have no end or interruption. / (proscribed) Forming a continuous series.

A continuation.

simple past tense and past participle of continue

the word continued when placed in the end of the page to show it is to be continued

(dated) Prolonged; unstopped. / Uninterrupted.

present participle of continue

Of or pertaining to continuation. / (linguistics) durative.