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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded
Example:
promises kept
Synonyms:
kept; unbroken
Classified under:
Domain category:
contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb keep
Context examples:
They kept six of the Indians up for to-day—that's how I understood it—but I fancy we were to be the star performers in the show.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No doubt of it; it is nothing serious; he is nervous, his spirits must be kept up.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
As he sank back with it between his teeth, he kept his eye on the sapling.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They kept close to the door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room was more dreadful than any of the forms they had seen Oz take.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Every morning she went with the child to the garden where the wild beasts were kept, and washed herself there in a clear stream.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
His eyes never met mine; they kept wandering to and fro, up and down, now with a look to the sky, now with a flitting glance upon the dead O'Brien.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The monkey was killed, and an order made, that no such animal should be kept about the palace.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
If you have a secret, or if someone has kept one from you, it would likely come out now.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The floor was a little raised, so that it was kept perfectly dry, and by its vicinity to the chimney of the cottage it was tolerably warm.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A question about whether an individual has or had pain that kept them from doing things they wanted to do.
(Pain Keeps Me From Doing Things I Want to Do, NCI Thesaurus)
