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View definitions for kept

kept

adjective as in preserved

Strong matches

Weak match

adjective as in retained

adjective as in observed

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The delays kept everyone voting late into the night, to no one's pleasure.

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Eliava, in contrast, was a mischievous charmer who pranked his friends, once dressing as a woman to flirt with d’Hérelle at a dinner party, and kept sketchy notes in the lab.

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“Don’t,” blurted her mother, Rebecca Marriott, who laughed along with everyone else, but kept sneaking anxious peeks at her watch.

“But we kept an open conversation. I learned a lot from her, like when they’re doing microphones, people would come up to her and grab her chair. It’s like, ‘That’s my body.

It was not the first time that a wildfire has kept field workers from earning a living.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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