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Kept

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. Past tense and past participle of keep.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Simple past tense and past participle of keep.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

imp. & p. p. of keep.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Preterit and past participle of keep.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded

Word Usage

"I believe that one-third out of the number of days in the year are “kept holy,” or rather, _kept stupid_, in honour of the saints; no great portion of the time thus set apart is spent in religious exercises, and the people don’t betake themselves to any such animating pastimes as might serve to strengthen the frame, or invigorate the mind, or exalt the taste."

Equivalent

kept mistress

Variant

keep

Form

kept woman

Verb Stem

keep

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

accept adapt adept apt capped clapped crept entrapped except flapped