Synonyms for keep out

Grammar : Verb

Spell : keep

Phonetic Transcription : kip

Top 10 synonyms for keep out

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Définition of keep out

Origin : late Old English cepan "to seize, hold," also "to observe," from Proto-Germanic *kopijanan, but with no certain connection to other languages. It possibly is related to Old English capian "to look," from Proto-Germanic *kap- (cepan was used c.1000 to render Latin observare), which would make the basic sense "to keep an eye on."
The word prob. belongs primarily to the vulgar and non-literary stratum of the language; but it comes up suddenly into literary use c.1000, and that in many senses, indicating considerable previous development. [OED]
Sense of "preserve, maintain" is from mid-14c. Meaning "to maintain in proper order" is from 1550s; meaning "financially support and privately control" (usually in reference to mistresses) is from 1540s. Related: Kept; keeping.

As in reserve : verb keep, hold back
As in bar : verb prohibit
As in shut off/shut out : verb exclude; screen
As in hold back : verb repress
As in shut out : verb exclude
As in exclude : verb expel, forbid
As in hold : verb have in one's hands, possession; grasp
As in hold back/hold off : verb repress

Example sentences :

And Molly Abrahamson used to warn him to keep out of her father's way.
Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle

You are to keep out of his way, he says, and he will not seek to put himself in yours.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

It cannot keep out the arrow of the cock's cry, and the heart that pierces is no shadow.
Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald

Little Katie put her hands over her ears to keep out the sound.
Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd

Lonesomeness was the very thing he had tried to keep out of that letter.
Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln

How he can do it and keep out of jale, my saving soul, I don't know.
Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Glenfaba may be dull, but you do well to keep out of the whirlpool of London for the present.
Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine

Did he think, however, she wondered, that he could keep out of it to the end?
Extract from : « The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 » by Henry James

Well have to keep out the press and television men, anyway, because of your health.
Extract from : « Martians Never Die » by Lucius Daniel

Be very careful to keep out of the cells anything that does not belong there.
Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte

Antonyms for keep out

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