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(v)
(transitive, idiomatic) To persist or continue.
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(transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
(transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
(transitive) Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
(transitive) To help keep from falling.
To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
(n)
Something that provides support or nourishment.
(intransitive) To continue an action.
(idiomatic, intransitive) To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power.
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
(transitive) To hold back; to refuse to give or share.
(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
(adj)
Having life; alive.
To participate, cooperate, or conform.
(transitive) To control or keep in check.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income).
(idiomatic) Wait a short while.
(transitive) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
(transitive or intransitive) To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.
The fortified tower and main residence of a motte or early castle; a keep.
(transitive) To imprison in a dungeon.
(idiomatic) That which is central or fundamental, as to one's business, survival, or income; a staple or cornerstone.
To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
retain rights to
fail to spoil or rot
(intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”).
(intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
(intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
That sustains, supports or provides sustenance.
(intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
The act of retaining or something retained.
The act by which something or someone is retained; a retention.
(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
To position or be positioned physically:
(transitive) To make stable.
(transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
(transitive) To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.
(intransitive, with preposition "from") To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain; to eschew
(transitive, ditransitive) To book in advance; to make a reservation for.
(transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
(transitive) To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
(intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
(physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
Held continuously at a certain level.
(informal) A person or thing worth keeping.
(ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
(transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
(dialectal) To curse, revile.
(defective, ambitransitive) To use caution, pay attention to (used both with and without of).
A reduction in cost or expenditure.
(transitive) To meet the needs of, to fulfill the wishes or requirements of (someone).
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
preservation
To make or become physically unobstructed, uncovered, etc.
(intransitive) To cease moving.
To yield assent; to accord; to acquiesce, agree, consent; to adapt oneself, to conform.
(ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
showing maintenance or attention
(transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
(transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
The act of doing maintenance.
(transitive) To remove the possibility of; to rule out; to prevent or exclude; to render impossible.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
A continuation.
Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
(transitive) To be given, sent, or paid something.
(transitive) To possess, own.
To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
(transitive) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
Recurring; happening time after time.
(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
(transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
(transitive) To prevent something from happening.
(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
(transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.
(transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
(transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
(transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
(transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure.
(transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.
Uninterrupted.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.