Antonyms for keep out


Grammar : Verb
Spell : keep
Phonetic Transcription : kip


Definition of keep out

Origin :
  • late Old English cepan "to seize, hold," also "to observe," from Proto-Germanic *kopijanan, but with no certain connection to other languages. It possibly is related to Old English capian "to look," from Proto-Germanic *kap- (cepan was used c.1000 to render Latin observare), which would make the basic sense "to keep an eye on."
  • The word prob. belongs primarily to the vulgar and non-literary stratum of the language; but it comes up suddenly into literary use c.1000, and that in many senses, indicating considerable previous development. [OED]
  • Sense of "preserve, maintain" is from mid-14c. Meaning "to maintain in proper order" is from 1550s; meaning "financially support and privately control" (usually in reference to mistresses) is from 1540s. Related: Kept; keeping.
  • As in reserve : verb keep, hold back
  • As in bar : verb prohibit
  • As in shut off/shut out : verb exclude; screen
  • As in hold back : verb repress
  • As in shut out : verb exclude
  • As in exclude : verb expel, forbid
  • As in hold : verb have in one's hands, possession; grasp
  • As in hold back/hold off : verb repress
Example sentences :
  • And Molly Abrahamson used to warn him to keep out of her father's way.
  • Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
  • You are to keep out of his way, he says, and he will not seek to put himself in yours.
  • Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • It cannot keep out the arrow of the cock's cry, and the heart that pierces is no shadow.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • Little Katie put her hands over her ears to keep out the sound.
  • Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd
  • Lonesomeness was the very thing he had tried to keep out of that letter.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • How he can do it and keep out of jale, my saving soul, I don't know.
  • Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Glenfaba may be dull, but you do well to keep out of the whirlpool of London for the present.
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • Did he think, however, she wondered, that he could keep out of it to the end?
  • Extract from : « The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 » by Henry James
  • Well have to keep out the press and television men, anyway, because of your health.
  • Extract from : « Martians Never Die » by Lucius Daniel
  • Be very careful to keep out of the cells anything that does not belong there.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte

Synonyms for keep out

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