keep from

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keep from

verb keeps from · keeping from · kept from

transitive To prevent or restrain (someone or something) from; to refrain or cause to refrain from. 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
transitive To make and cause to remain secret. What else did your brother keep from me?
transitive To cause to be excluded or not present. He could not keep the sadness from his trembly voice.
transitive To protect or preserve from. As a mother, I wanted to keep my son from harm.

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@misc{keep_from_2026,
  title = {keep from},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/keep%20from},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}