keep from

present singular third person keeps from · participle present keeping from · participle past kept from · past kept from

1. transitiveTo prevent or restrain (someone or something) from; to refrain or cause to refrain from.

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   It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.

   2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36

2. transitiveTo make and cause to remain secret.

   What else did your brother keep from me?

3. transitiveTo cause to be excluded or not present.

   I don't want to keep you from school.

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   He could not keep the sadness from his trembly voice.

4. transitiveTo protect or preserve from.

   As a mother, I wanted to keep my son from harm.