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1: continue uninterrupted; "The disease will run on unchecked"; "The party kept going until 4 A.M." [syn: {run on}] 2: suffice for a period between two points; "This money will keep us going for anoth...

1: watch over so as to protect; "We must stand sentinel to protect ourselves"; "The jewels over which they kept guard were stolen" [syn: {stand guard}, {stand watch}, {stand sentinel}]

1: cause to stay indoors

1: control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage; "She manipulates her boss"; "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up"; "The teacher kn...

1: refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached" [syn: {close up}, {clam up}, {dummy up}, {shut up}, {belt up}, {button up}, {be quiet}] [ant: {open ...

1: maintain in the forefront of one's awareness; "He kept note of the location of the soldiers"

1: refrain from certain foods or beverages; "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day" [syn: {avoid}] 2: refrain from entering or walking onto; "keep off the grass"; "s...

1: allow to remain in a place or position; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our gr...

1: stay clear of, avoid; "Keep your hands off my wife!"; "Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous" [syn: {stand back}, {keep one's eyes off}, {keep one's hands off}, {stay away}]

1: stay clear of, avoid; "Keep your hands off my wife!"; "Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous" [syn: {stand back}, {keep one's distance}, {keep one's hands off}, {stay away}]

1: pay attention; be watchful; "Keep your eyes peeled for any policemen" [syn: {keep one's eyes peeled}, {keep one's eyes skinned}]

1: pay attention; be watchful; "Keep your eyes peeled for any policemen" [syn: {keep one's eyes skinned}, {keep one's eyes open}]

1: pay attention; be watchful; "Keep your eyes peeled for any policemen" [syn: {keep one's eyes peeled}, {keep one's eyes open}]

1: stay clear of, avoid; "Keep your hands off my wife!"; "Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous" [syn: {stand back}, {keep one's eyes off}, {keep one's distance}, {stay away}]

1: refrain from divulging sensitive information; keep quiet about confidential information; "Don't tell him any secrets--he cannot keep his mouth shut!" [syn: {keep quiet}, {shut one's mouth}] [ant: {...

1: work doggedly or persistently; "She keeps plugging away at her dissertation" [syn: {plug away}, {peg away}, {slog}, {keep one's shoulder to the wheel}]

1: work doggedly or persistently; "She keeps plugging away at her dissertation" [syn: {plug away}, {peg away}, {slog}, {keep one's nose to the grindstone}]

1: retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger" [syn: {hold open}, {keep}, {save}]

1: prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country" [syn: {exclude}, {shut out}, {shut}] ...

1: maintain the same pace; "The child cannot keep step with his big brother" [syn: {keep step}]

1: refrain from divulging sensitive information; keep quiet about confidential information; "Don't tell him any secrets--he cannot keep his mouth shut!" [syn: {shut one's mouth}, {keep one's mouth shu...

1: maintain the same pace; "The child cannot keep step with his big brother" [syn: {keep pace}]

1: keep a record on or watch attentively; "The government keeps tabs on the dissidents"

1: shun the company of others; "The new student keeps to herself" 2: withhold information; "I kept your little secreto to myself all these years"

1: maintain a required pace or level; "He could not keep up and dropped out of the race" 2: lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negociations as long as possible"; "pr...

1: someone in charge of other people; "am I my brother's keeper?" 2: one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals [syn: {custodian}, {steward}]

1: conformity or harmony; "his behavior was not in keeping with the occasion" 2: the responsibility of a guardian or keeper; "he left his car in my keeping" [syn: {guardianship}, {safekeeping}] 3: the...

1: something of sentimental value [syn: {souvenir}, {token}, {relic}]

1: a spitz-type dog having a shaggy grayish coat and tightly curled tail originating in Holland [also: {keeshonden} (pl)]

{keeshond}

1: an oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract [syn: {cephalexi...

1: an oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract [syn: {cephalexi...

1: an oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract [syn: {cephalexi...

1: the quantity contained in a keg [syn: {kegful}] 2: small cask or barrel

1: exercises for women designed to improve the ability to hold urine [syn: {pubococcygeus exercises}]

1: the quantity contained in a keg [syn: {keg}]

1: vigorous South African spiny shrub grown for its round yellow juicy edible fruits [syn: {kei apple bush}, {Dovyalis caffra}]

1: vigorous South African spiny shrub grown for its round yellow juicy edible fruits [syn: {kei apple}, {Dovyalis caffra}]

1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: {buttocks}, {nates}, {arse}, {butt}, {backside},...

1: United States publisher (born in Australia in 1931) [syn: {Murdoch}, {Rupert Murdoch}]

1: a member of a Mayan people of north central Guatemala 2: a Mayan language spoken by the Kekchi people

1: German chemist remembered for his discovery of the ring structure of benzene (1829-1896) [syn: {Friedrich August Kekule}, {Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz}]

1: a closed chain of 6 carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached [syn: {benzene formula}, {benzene ring}, {benzene nucleus}]

1: United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion...

1: United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn; he established a company to manufacture the cereal (1860-19...

1: United States circus clown (1898-1979) [syn: {Emmett Kelly}, {Weary Willie}] 2: United States film actress who retired when she married into the royal family of Monaco (1928-1982) [syn: {Grace Kell...

1: raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair [syn: {cheloid}]

1: large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds

1: common food and sport fish of western coast of North America [syn: {Hexagrammos decagrammus}]

1: (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders [syn: {kelpy}] 2: an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears

1: bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash [syn: {saltwort}, {barilla}, {glasswort}, {kali}, {Salsola kali}, {Salsola soda}]

1: (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders [syn: {kelpie}]

1: a member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times [syn: {Celt}]

1: in working order; "out of kilter"; "in good kilter" [syn: {kilter}]

1: the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: {K}] 2: British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea tele...

1: a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as 0 degrees; water freezes at 273.16 degrees and boils at 373.16 degrees [syn: {absolute scale}]

1: drug (trade name Kemadrin) used to reduce tremors in parkinsonism [syn: {procyclidine}]

1: Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938) [syn: {Ataturk}, {Kemal Pasha}, {Mustafa Kemal}]

1: Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938) [syn: {Ataturk}, {Kemal Ataturk}, {Mustafa Kemal}]

1: (used of hair) neat and tidy; "a nicely kempt beard" [syn: {tidy}, {trim}]