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Keep back   /kip bæk/   Listen
Keep back

verb
1.
Keep under control; keep in check.  Synonyms: hold back, keep, restrain.  "Keep your temper" , "Keep your cool"
2.
Secure and keep for possible future use or application.  Synonyms: hold, hold back, retain.  "I reserve the right to disagree"
3.
Hold back; refuse to hand over or share.  Synonym: withhold.






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"Keep back" Quotes from Famous Books



... was on the beach as we neared the shore. Every soul was waiting to shake hands when I landed. Even with the grip that one after another gave me, some no longer trying to keep back the tears, I did not find out my hands were frost-burnt,—a fact I have not been slow to appreciate since, however. I must have been a weird sight as I stepped ashore, tied up in rags, stuffed out with oakum, wrapped in the bloody skins of dogs, with ...
— Adrift on an Ice-Pan • Wilfred T. Grenfell

... sight, in the face of this fresh disaster, Bouvard had to keep back his tears, and Pecuchet got a ...
— Bouvard and Pecuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life • Gustave Flaubert

... the whiting," said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, "I'd have said, to the porpoise, 'Keep back, please; we don't ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V3 • Charles H. Sylvester

... toward her sitting humbly in the chair, I saw she was again struggling to keep back her tears. It was high ...
— A Village of Vagabonds • F. Berkeley Smith

... came.—Now the scolding is going to commence." The hand patted him affectionately. "Phil, dear, are you quite as frank with me as you used to be? Do you still tell me everything you think and do and are? Isn't there something you keep back nowadays?" ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly


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