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keep to oneself en · VERB

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To purposely avoid interaction with others; to be introverted.
   • I've done no harm, I keep to myself / There's nothing wrong with my state of mental health 1981, Men at Work, “Who Can It Be Now?”, in Business as Usual:
   • She preferred to keep to herself after her husband died.
2. (transitive) To refrain from telling or giving; to keep secret, or refuse to share.
   • keep oneself to oneself
   • Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable, and which the doctor admonished them to keep to themselves. 1900, Mark Twain, chapter IV, in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg:

Forms

Deriveds

to oneself

Synonyms

keep oneself to oneself

Translations (4)

ru держаться особняком ((intransitive)) · es ser poco sociable ((intransitive)) · ar احتفظ بكل شيء لنسفه ((intransitive)) · es ser huraño ((intransitive))