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What does keep back mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word keep back? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To hold back; to refuse to give or share.
  2. (transitive) To restrict or restrain.
  3. (transitive) To prevent (a pupil) from advancing in a course.
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I had dawdled a little bit at the beginning so I could keep back with the girls, but the rest of the run had felt a lot faster to me.
Before we were ready to take the scene we had to put ropes up to keep back the uninvited audience which giggled and tee-heed and commented loudly throughout.
A warped rationale twisted and struggled madly to keep back the torrent rising against the flimsy barrier of his lie.
The poor man, when he accompanied me to the coach, he could barely keep back his tears.
My third and final question is this: what guarantees can the Commissioner give that the Council will keep back the proposed EUR 17.5 billion?
The sound, the weirdness of the hooters in itself, would keep back a braver foe.

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