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keep off en · VERB

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To stay or cause to stay at a distance (from).
   • You keep the dogs off while I go and knock on the door.
   • "Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made. 1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
   • Please keep off the grass.

Forms

Translations (5)

pt não deixar se aproximar (to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)) · de fernhalten (to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)) · pt não se aproximar (to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)) · la abhibeo (to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)) · sv hålla borta (to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from))