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Definition of Keep

Keep To care; to desire. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor. To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret. To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to keep books, a journal, etc. ; also, to enter (as accounts, records, etc. ) in a book. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc. To have habitually in stock for sale. To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to neglect; to be faithful to. To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as, to keep one's house, room, bed, etc. ; hence, to haunt; to frequent. To observe duty, as a festival, etc. ; to celebrate; to solemnize; as, to keep a feast. To remain in any position or state; to continue; to abide; to stay; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out reach. To last; to endure; to remain unimpaired. To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell. To take care; to be solicitous; to watch. To be in session; as, school keeps to-day. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case; as, to be in good keep. The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse. That which keeps or protects; a stronghold; a fortress; a castle; specifically, the strongest and securest part of a castle, often used as a place of residence by the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle. That which is kept in charge; a charge. A cap for retaining anything, as a journal box, in place. Related Definitions: Abide, Act, Action, Adhere, Aloft, Also, An, And, Any, Anything, As, Assistant, At, Attend, Be, Bed, Before, Behind, Being, Betray, Book, Box, By, Cap, Care, Case, Castle, Cause, Celebrate, Charge, Communicate, Company, Condition, Conduct, Confine, Continue, Course, Custody, Danger, Departure, Desire, Detain, Discovery, Distance, Donjon, During, Duty, Dwell, Endure, Enter, Entertain, Especially, Establishment, Faithful, Fall, Favor, Feast, Festival, For, Fortress, Frequent, From, Fulfill, Given, Go, Good, Guard, Harm, Haunt, Have, Heed, Hence, Hold, Horse, House, In, Institution, Intermit, Is, Journal, Keep, Keeping, Kept, Last, Let, Life, Like, Lodge, Lord, Lose, Loss, Maintain, Maintenance, Manage, Mistress, Mode, Near, Necessaries, Neglect, Not, Observe, Of, Office, Often, One, Or, Out, Part, Perform, Place, Position, Possession, Power, Practice, Preservation, Preserve, Publicity, Quit, Reach, Record, Remain, Removal, Reside, Residence, Restrain, Resulting, Retain, Retaining, Reveal, Room, Sale, School, Secret, See, Self, Servant, Service, Session, Siege, Silence, Situation, Solemnize, Solicitous, Some, Specifically, State, Stay, Stock, Store, Stronghold, Supply, Support, Swerve, Take, Tend, Tenor, That, The, Time, To, To-Day, Upon, Used, Violate, Watch, Which, With, Word

Keep Quotations The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Stephen Covey I want to keep my private life private. Cathy Freeman We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard Keep it simple. Alfred Eisenstaedt

Keep Translations keep in Afrikaans is teel, bewaar, aanhou keep in Danish is beholde, avle, redde keep in Dutch is blijven keep in German is aufbewahren, behalten, halten, halte, aufhalten keep in Italian is osservare, trattenere, mantenere, rimanere, durare keep in Latin is teneo, servo, retineo, arx, obtineo, conservo keep in Norwegian is beholde keep in Portuguese is poupar, observar, sustento keep in Spanish is mantener, permanecer, vigilar, retener, preservar

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