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keep
used as a transitive verb
If you keep something or someone in a place, you cause them to remain in that place. The past tense and -ed participle of keep is kept.
Where do you your keys?
The doctors her in hospital for another week.
To keep someone or something in a particular state means to cause them to remain in that state.
The fire them warm.
They had been kept awake by birds.
used as an intransitive verb
To keep in a particular state means to remain in that state.
They've got to hunt for food to alive.
used with an -ing form
Keep can be used in two different ways with an -ing form.
You can use it to say that something is repeated many times.
The phone .
My mother keeps asking questions.
You can also use it to say that something continues to happen and does not stop.
I turned back after a while, but he .
The fire is still burning. I think it'll keep going all night.
For emphasis, you can use keep on instead of ‘keep’.
Did he give up or ?
Be careful
Don't say that someone or something ‘keeps to do’ something.

Forum discussions with the word(s) "keep out" in the title:

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adjusting the top to keep everything from falling out - English Only forum
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From that blessed little room, Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, came out, <a glorious host>, to keep~ - English Only forum
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He'll never be let out of prison, they can keep him as long - English Only forum
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keep Americans in, Russians out and Germans down - English Only forum
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