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kept

[ kept ]

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of keep.


adjective

  1. having the expression of principles, ideas, etc., controlled, dominated, or determined by one whose money provides support:

    a kept press;

    a kept writer.

kept

/ ɛ /

verb

  1. the past tense and past participle of keep
  2. kept woman pejorative.
    a woman maintained by a man as his mistress
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Other Word Forms

  • ܲ· adjective
  • ɱ- adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of kept1

First recorded in 1670–80 kept fordef 2
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Luckily for Sarah she had a solar charger that kept her phone charged through ten hours of blackout, and helped her elderly neighbour do the same.

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He claimed during the trial that had been a "joke" and any money received had been money from his now late father – who "kept a box of £20 notes in his wardrobe".

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Some of the tissue that has held us together and kept us alive is already necrotic.

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Two men accused of chopping down the famous Sycamore Gap tree kept a wedge as a trophy in a felling that prosecutors described as a "moronic mission".

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“The asparagus sprang up every spring without fail, an old friend, a capsule of history from when life kept growing, birthed from a better time.”

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