Kept

/ˈkɛpt/

Synonyms for "kept" (51 found)

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Closest matches (11)

Verb(5 words)

archive archived confidential document guard

conserved demimonde heldheld backheld in reserve

Adjective(1 words)

conserved property

Strong matches (15)

hesitation intact preserved

Verb(9 words)

hidden hived hold log maintain maintainedon filepreserve preserved

Noun(2 words)

most conservedpreserved data

Adjective(1 words)

preserved specimens

Related words (25)

Verb(10 words)

protect record restricted retain retained safeguarded saved secret stored upheld

protectedput byreserved retained saved spare spared undamaged unspoiled untainted well-conserved well-kept withheld

Adjective(1 words)

unbroken

Noun(1 words)

well maintained records

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

13 entries

action condition confidentialitydocument actionprivacyrecord keepingretention secrecy statestate changestatus storage verb

More specific

17 entries

archivearchived dataconfidential datadocument guardkept cleankept organizedkept safelog maintainon file copieson record entriespreserveprivate notesrestricted filesave

Showing 16 of 17 words.

Collocations

8 entries

kept awaykept in mindkept neatkept pacekept recordskept safekept secretkept track

Inflections

2 entries

keeping keeps

Derivations

3 entries

keepable keeper keeping

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

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Do you like to be kept waiting?

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Your room must always be kept clean.

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Urgent business kept me from going shopping with you.

Source: tatoeba (19597)

Urgent business kept him from going to the concert.

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Showing 4 of 10 available sentences.

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