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KEPT UP
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Kept in good condition
Synonyms:
kept up; maintained; well-kept
Classified under:
Similar:
preserved (kept intact or in a particular condition)
Context examples:
She walked eagerly on as she spoke; and Elinor, to screen Marianne from particularity, as she felt almost certain of its not being Willoughby, quickened her pace and kept up with her.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
When Laurie came home, dead tired but quite composed, his grandfather met him as if he knew nothing, and kept up the delusion very successfully for an hour or two.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It kept up a slow fire of indignation and a trembling trouble of grief, which harassed and crushed me altogether.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Two had bit the dust, one had fled, four had made good their footing inside our defences, while from the shelter of the woods seven or eight men, each evidently supplied with several muskets, kept up a hot though useless fire on the log-house.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Down went Jo's face into the wet handkerchief, and she cried despairingly, for she had kept up bravely till now and never shed a tear.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Having completed her task, she rose to draw down the blind, which she had hitherto kept up, by way, I suppose, of making the most of daylight, though dusk was now fast deepening into total obscurity.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The minute he was put into bed on one side, he rolled out on the other, and made for the door, only to be ignominiously caught up by the tail of his little toga and put back again, which lively performance was kept up till the young man's strength gave out, when he devoted himself to roaring at the top of his voice.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
