keep from

About 2.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To prevent or restrain from; to refrain or cause to refrain from.
2. verb To make and cause to remain secret.

   What else did your brother keep from me?

3. verb To cause to be excluded or not present.

   He could not keep the sadness from his trembly voice.

4. verb To protect or preserve from.

   As a mother, I wanted to keep my son from harm.

Similar words

avoid abstain from desist from refrain from retain refrain prevent abstain keep out of take away

Word family

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