Keep from
verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 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 To make and cause to remain secret. transitive
"What else did your brother keep from me?"
- 3 To cause to be excluded or not present. transitive
"He could not keep the sadness from his trembly voice."
- 4 To protect or preserve from. transitive
"As a mother, I wanted to keep my son from harm."
Example
More examples"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."