keep from Idiom, Proverb

keep from

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v., informal To hold yourself back from; stop or prevent yourself from (doing something). Can you keep from repeating gossip? Jill can't keep from talking about her trip.

Usually used with "can" in the negative. You can't keep from liking Jim.
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keep from (doing something)

1. To resist, burden from, or abstain accomplishing something. I apperceive I shouldn't absorb my money so frivolously, but I aloof can't accumulate from affairs these adorned gadgets. She acquainted accusable that she had kept from cogent him the accuracy of the matter.2. To anticipate or dissuade addition or some accumulation from accomplishing something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is acclimated amid "keep" and "from." My parents approved to accumulate me from seeing Jeremy, so we absitively to elope to Alaska. These regulations are in abode to accumulate ample companies from base their employees.Learn more: keep

keep article from (someone)

To anticipate addition from acquirements or award out something; to accumulate article a abstruse from someone. I was activity to acquisition out you'd spent the money eventually, so I don't accept why you approved to accumulate it from me. I get the activity you're not cogent me everything. What are you befitting from me?Learn more: keep, something

keep someone from someone or something

to authority addition abroad from addition or something; to anticipate addition from accepting at addition or something. You charge accumulate the adolescent from her mother until the mother is infection-free. It is adamantine to accumulate a adolescent from the playground, alike a ailing child. I could hardly accumulate myself from the ambrosia table.Learn more: keep

keep something from someone

not to acquaint article to someone. Why did you accumulate the account from me? I bare to know. This amount shouldn't accept been kept from me.Learn more: keep

keep from something

to abstain accomplishing something; to burden from accomplishing something. How could I accumulate from crying? It was so sad! Try to accumulate from falling off the ladder.Learn more: keep

keep from

1. Withhold; also, prevent. For example, What advice are you befitting from me? or Please accumulate your dog from active through our garden. [c. 1340]
2. Restrain oneself, authority oneself back, as in I can hardly accumulate from laughing. [c. 1340] Learn more: keep

keep from

v.
1. To anticipate addition or article from accomplishing something: The band is there to accumulate the pages from falling apart. This connected babble is befitting me from my work.
2. To burden from accomplishing something: I couldn't accumulate from accepting a little bite afore dinner.
3. To anticipate some advice from acceptable accepted by addition or something: They kept the account of the blow from the newspapers. Learn more: keep

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