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What is the verb for keep?

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keep
  1. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
  2. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
    1. To maintain possession of.
    2. To maintain the condition of.
    3. (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
    4. (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
    5. (archaic) To remain in, to be confined to.
    6. To restrain.
    7. (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
    8. To supply with necessities and financially support a person.
    9. (of living things) To raise; to care for.
    10. To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
    11. To have habitually in stock for sale.
  3. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
    1. (obsolete) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
    2. To continue.
    3. To remain edible or otherwise usable.
    4. (copular verb) To remain in a state.
  4. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
  5. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
  7. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
  8. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
  9. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
  10. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
  11. Synonyms:
      12. store, stow, house, deposit, pile, place, put, hold, reposit, stack, amass, put aside, put away, put up, keep a place for, save, cache, stockpile, hoard, reserve, stash, pack, put by, squirrel away, set aside, lay away, lay aside, put to one side, bank, pack away, accumulate, preserve, lock away, sock away, salt away, stash away, put in storage, keep in reserve, stock, lodge, maintain, collect, archive, gather, squirrel, garner, hive, lay in, lay by, put in store … more
  12. Examples:
      13. “We usually keep our food items in the pantry.”
      “I plan to keep my savings for a rainy day.”
      “All this work will keep me from enjoying my weekend.”
keeping
  1. present participle of keep
  2. Synonyms:
      3. storing, stowing, housing, depositing, piling, placing, putting, holding, repositing, stacking, amassing, putting aside, putting away, putting up, keeping a place for, retaining, reserving, saving, accumulating, garnering, hoarding, collecting, possessing, stockpiling, withholding, caching, shelving, stashing, concealing, filing, heaping, hiding, repressing, stifling, holding back, holding fast to, holding on to, keeping hold of, keeping in reserve, keeping possession of, piling up, putting by, retaining possession of, saving up, setting aside, stashing away … more
keepe
  1. Obsolete spelling of keep
keeps
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keep
  2. Synonyms:
      3. provides, cares for, supports, cares, are responsible for, feeds, fends for, is responsible for, looks after, nurtures, sustains, takes care of, administers, feathers, brings home the bacon, clothes, endows, favors, finances, gives food to, indulges, maintains, ministers, provides board for, provides sustenance for, nourishes, plies, rations, satisfies, treats, favours, blesses, provides for, boards, subsidizes, minds, funds, fosters, subsidises, provides food for, keeps alive, fattens, nurses, feeds up, cultivates, fattens up, raises, stuffs, rears, brings up … more
keepeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of keep
keepest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of keep
keptest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of keep
kept
  1. simple past tense and past participle of keep
  2. Synonyms:
      3. provided, cared for, supported, cared, fed, fended for, looked after, nurtured, sustained, took care of, was responsible for, were responsible for, administered, feathered, brought home the bacon, clad, clothed, endowed, favored, financed, gave food to, indulged, maintained, ministered, provided board for, provided sustenance for, nourished, plied, rationed, satisfied, treated, favoured, blessed … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “They did not like being bested, but it was precisely his obstinate redamancy that kept them going in all its forms.”
      “We learn from the record kept at the Freedmen's Bureau, that there are two thousand two hundred children here.”
      “The hagiocracy can only be kept going by an appeal to the authority of tradition.”
keepen
  1. (obsolete) plural simple present form of keep
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