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verb simple past tense and past participle of keep.
adjective having the expression of principles, ideas, etc., controlled, dominated, or determined by one whose money provides support: a kept press; a kept writer.
Origin of kept 1670–80 for def. 2
OTHER WORDS FROM kept un·kept, adjective well-kept, adjective Words nearby kept Kepler, Johannes, Kepler's law, Kepler's laws, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, Kepler telescope, kept , ker-, Kerak, Kerala, keramic, keramics
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Duke kept running for offices and losing by ever-greater margins.
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As, however, the whole plan of our proceedings was to be kept secret, I will not touch on that subject.
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One could see that, in both places, something like an old world dignity of life had in the past been kept up.
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He did not care to show himself, and he kept one of the big trees between himself and the man all the time.
I discovered that they kept no cattle, nor animals of any kind for food or labor.
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They were kept at hand constantly for any light they might cast on difficult passages.
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British Dictionary definitions for kept verb the past tense and past participle of keep
kept woman censorious a woman maintained by a man as his mistress
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Words related to kept stored, conserved, guarded, reserved, withheld, held, saved, maintained, clutched, celebrated, fulfilled, honored, unbroken, obeyed, followed, regarded, commemorated, solemnized, continued, put up