keep from
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Verb
keep from (third-person singular simple present keeps from, present participle keeping from, simple past and past participle kept from) (transitive)
- To prevent or restrain (someone or something) from; to refrain or cause to refrain from.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
- To make and cause to remain secret.
- What else did your brother keep from me?
- To cause to be excluded or not present.
- He could not keep the sadness from his trembly voice.
- I don't want to keep you from school.
- To protect or preserve from.
- As a mother, I wanted to keep my son from harm.
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