keep out en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(intransitive) To refrain from entering a place or condition.
After being warned, he kept out.
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(transitive) To restrain someone or something from entering a place or condition.
The warning kept him out.
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
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(qualifier:African-American Vernacular) To dress up.
Put me in Chanels, kept me out nice
1996, Lil' Kim, “Not Tonight”:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| kept out | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| kept out | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| keeps out | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| keeping out | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Relateds
stay away · no trespassing · no admittance
Translations (15)
pl trzymać się z daleka (to refrain from entering) · es quedarse afuera (to refrain from entering) · fi pitää kaukana (to restrain someone or something) · fi pysyä ulkona (to refrain from entering) · fr rester en dehors (to refrain from entering) · cmn 阻止進入 /阻止进入 (to restrain someone or something) · fr exclure (to restrain someone or something) · pl trzymać z daleka (to restrain someone or something) · cmn 不進入 /不进入 (to refrain from entering) · es mantener afuera (to restrain someone or something) · fr bannir (to restrain someone or something) · es no entrar (to refrain from entering) · fi pysytellä ulkona (to refrain from entering) · da ingen adgang (to refrain from entering) · fr ne pas entrer (to refrain from entering)