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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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Such is the depravity of man in general, that did not the Lord keep back even the regenerate from evils and falses, he would cast himself headlong into hell.
Now and then, Jacinta could not keep back her tears, so great was the discomfort this caused her.
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 Paladin's strikes can break the most solid armor and keep back the incoming enemies.
The sound, the weirdness of the hooters in itself, would keep back a braver foe.
The poor man, when he accompanied me to the coach, he could barely keep back his tears.

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