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kept
[ kept ]
adjective
- 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
- the past tense and past participle of keep
- kept woman pejorative.a woman maintained by a man as his mistress
Other Word Forms
- ܲ· adjective
- ɱ- adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of kept1
Example Sentences
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.
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".
Some of the tissue that has held us together and kept us alive is already necrotic.
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".
“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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