act, move - perform an action, or work out or perform (an action); "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"

preserve, uphold, carry on, continue, bear on - keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"

hold - remain in a certain state, position, or condition; "The weather held"; "They held on the road and kept marching"

keep going, run on - continue uninterrupted; "The disease will run on unchecked"; "The party kept going until 4 A.M."

ride - continue undisturbed and without interference; "Let it ride"

continue - continue after an interruption; "The demonstration continued after a break for lunch"

recrudesce, develop, break - happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"

come up, arise - occur; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"

intervene - occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"

transpire - come about, happen, or occur; "Several important events transpired last week"

give - occur; "what gives?"

operate - happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"

supervene - take place as an additional or unexpected development

proceed, go - follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?"

come - come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June"

fall - occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable"

anticipate - be a forerunner of or occur earlier than; "This composition anticipates Impressionism"

develop - be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly";

recur, repeat - happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story"

come off, go over, go off - happen in a particular manner; "how did your talk go over?"

roll around, come around - happen regularly; "Christmas rolled around again"

materialise, materialize, happen - come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"

bechance, befall, happen - happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)

bechance, befall, betide - become of; happen to; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?"

coincide, concur - happen simultaneously; "The two events coincided"

chance - be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"

break - happen or take place; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months"

shine, strike, fall - touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears"

turn out - prove to be in the result or end; "It turns out that he was right"

contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize - happen at the same time

go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"

forge - move ahead steadily; "He forged ahead"

penetrate - make one's way deeper into ar through; "The hikers did not manage to penetrate the dense forest"

creep up, sneak up - advance stealthily or unnoticed; "Age creeps up on you"

encroach, impinge, infringe - advance beyond the usual limit

plough on, press on, push on - continue moving forward

string along, string - move or come along

overhaul, overtake, pass - travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"

close in, draw in - advance or converge on; "The police were closing in on him"

edge, inch - advance slowly, as if by inches; "He edged towards the car"

rachet up, ratchet, ratchet down - move by degrees in one direction only; "a ratcheting lopping tool"

elapse, glide by, go by, slide by, slip by, slip away, go along, pass, lapse - pass by; "three years elapsed"

segue - proceed without interruption; in music or talk; "He segued into another discourse"

talk, speak - exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words"

jog, ramble, ramble on - continue talking or writing in a desultory manner; "This novel rambles on and jogs"

get going, start, go - begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!"