List of antonyms from "keep at distance" to antonyms from "keep eyes open"


Discover our 605 antonyms available for the terms "keep back, keep clear of, keep eyes open, keep close, keep clear" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.

Definition of the day : « keep back »

  • As in reserve : verb keep, hold back
  • As in smother : verb extinguish; cover, hide
  • As in hold back : verb repress
  • As in bottle up : verb hold in check
  • As in check : verb hinder, restrain
  • As in contain : verb hold back, control
  • As in delay : verb cause stop in action
  • As in deny : verb disagree, renounce, decline
  • As in disallow : verb reject, prohibit
  • As in discourage : verb deter, dissuade; restrain
  • As in earmark : verb reserve
  • As in hold back/hold off : verb repress
Example sentences :
  • He had really not enough fortitude in him just then to tell her to keep back.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • The hair sieve will keep back the other vegetable, the flavour of which only is wanted.
  • Extract from : « The Skilful Cook » by Mary Harrison
  • The captain could not keep back the speech which was at his tongue's end.
  • Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • For the future, if I live, I must keep back some—a little—to bring me to you.
  • Extract from : « End of the Tether » by Joseph Conrad
  • Paul could not keep back the tears when he saw how kind Uncle Peter was.
  • Extract from : « Winning His Way » by Charles Carleton Coffin
  • Hallo, keep back there, you are throwing us all into the river!
  • Extract from : « The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade » by Harry Moore
  • Her fists clenched and she bit her lip to keep back the tears.
  • Extract from : « Prairie Flowers » by James B. Hendryx
  • What you wish to keep back from my salary may remain for the master's—coffin-nails.
  • Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai
  • Just say, then; is the matter you keep back of the gravest importance, or is it not?'
  • Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy
  • I gulped helplessly and for the life of me I could not keep back the tears.
  • Extract from : « The Black Wolf Pack » by Dan Beard