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Keep from

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Verb
  1. 1
    To prevent or restrain (someone or something) from; to refrain or cause to refrain from. transitive

    "It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment."

  2. 2
    To make and cause to remain secret. transitive

    "What else did your brother keep from me?"

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

    "He could not keep the sadness from his trembly voice."

  4. 4
    To protect or preserve from. transitive

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

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