Crossword clues for kept
kept
- Wouldn't relinquish
- Retained possession
- Didn't throw away
- Didn't give away
- Didn't discard
- Wouldn't surrender
- Stayed good
- Maintained, as a diary
- Didn't trash
- Didn't relinquish
- Didn't pass or hand off
- Didn't offer for sale
- Didn't let go of
- Wouldn't release
- Wouldn't let go of
- Was true to, as one's word
- Skillet "Best ___ Secret"
- Remained fresh
- Remained edible
- Refrained (from)
- Matt Nathanson song he set aside?
- Didn't turn over
- Didn't turn
- Didn't get rid of
- Didn't donate
- Didn't ditch
- Didn't chuck
- Declined to discard
- Continued, with "up"
- Continued (with "on")
- Aerosmith "Train ___ A-Rollin'"
- Adhered to
- Hoarded
- Retained for oneself
- Didn't hand off
- Didn't part with
- Preserved
- Kind of woman
- Had in stock
- Didn't spoil, as food
- Didn't surrender
- Set aside
- Held on to rather than sold
- Stayed fresh
- Held back
- Didn't go stale
- Left in
- Possessed
- Saved for later
- Reserved
- Supported
- Like Amber and Becky Sharp
- Withheld, as secrets
- Fulfilled, as a promise
- Looked after
- Held onto
- Didn't toss out
- Didn't throw out
- Hung on to
- Didn't give up
- Didn't sell or lend out
- Didn't return
- Didn't go bad
- Didn't dispose of
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
kept \kept\ (k[e^]pt), imp. & p. p. of Keep.
Kept woman, Kept mistress, a concubine; a woman supported by a man as his paramour.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past tense of keep (v.).
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: keep)
WordNet
n. the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood" [syn: support, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance]
the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress [syn: donjon, dungeon]
a cell in a jail or prison [syn: hold]
[also: kept]
See keep
v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes" [syn: maintain, hold]
continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight" [syn: continue, go on, proceed, go along] [ant: discontinue]
retain possession of; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married" [syn: hold on] [ant: lose]
prevent from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles" [syn: prevent] [ant: let]
conform one's action or practice to; "keep appointments"; "she never keeps her promises"; "We kept to the original conditions of the contract" [syn: observe]
observe correctly or closely; "The pianist kept time with the metronome"; "keep count"; "I cannot keep track of all my employees" [syn: observe, maintain]
look after; be the keeper of; have charge of; "He keeps the shop when I am gone"
maintain by writing regular records; "keep a diary"; "maintain a record"; "keep notes" [syn: maintain]
supply with room and board; "He is keeping three women in the guest cottage"; "keep boarders"
allow to remain in a place or position; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could" [syn: retain, continue, keep on, keep going]
supply with necessities and support; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn and many to keep" [syn: sustain, maintain]
fail to spoil or rot; "These potatoes keep for a long time" [syn: stay fresh]
celebrate, as of holidays or rites; "Keep the commandments"; "celebrate Christmas"; "Observe Yom Kippur" [syn: observe, celebrate]
keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool" [syn: restrain, suppress, keep back, hold back]
maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger; "May God keep you" [syn: preserve]
raise; "She keeps a few chickens in the yard"; "he keeps bees"
retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger" [syn: keep open, hold open, save]
store or keep customarily; "Where do you keep your gardening tools?"
have as a supply; "I always keep batteries in the freezer"; "keep food for a week in the pantry"; "She keeps a sixpack and a week's worth of supplies in the refrigerator"
maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips" [syn: maintain]
hold and prevent from leaving; "The student was kept after school"
prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh" [syn: preserve]
[also: kept]
Wikipedia
Kept is a reality television series that centered on Jerry Hall ( model and ex-wife to Mick Jagger) searching for a kept man. The show premiered on the American cable network VH1 in late May 2005. When Hall narrowed the list down to twelve, she spirited them off to London and eliminated them one by one.
The final three consisted of Anwar, Austen and Seth. In the August 4 finale, Hall was torn between Austen and Seth but ultimately chose Seth as he knew how to have fun and she thought he had matured throughout the process. Seth claims that he got his $100,000 in prize money but after filming stopped he never saw Jerry, the penthouse apartment, or the Lamborghini again.
Usage examples of "kept".
The secretion of TSH can, as a result, be abnormally high and the thyroid kept needlessly, and even harmfully, overactive.
The cooking, I can tell you, kept her nose to the pot, and even if there was nothing in it, even if there was no pot, she had to keep watching that it came aboil just the same.
The abomination of it all, the vengeance of destiny which exacted this sacrilege, filled her with such a feeling of revolt that at the moment when vertigo was about to seize her and the flooring began to flee from beneath her feet, she was lashed by it and kept erect.
There were a few lightly coloured Aboriginal boys left and they kept an eye on me.
Oswald Brunies, the strutting, candy-sucking teacher -- a monument will be erected to him -- to him with magnifying glass on elastic, with sticky bag in sticky coat pocket, to him who collected big stones and little stones, rare pebbles, preferably mica gneiss -- muscovy biotite -- quartz, feldspar, and hornblende, who picked up pebbles, examined them, rejected or kept them, to him the Big Playground of the Conradinum was not an abrasive stumbling block but a lasting invitation to scratch about with the tip of his shoe after nine rooster steps.
The horrifying truth is that she was almost certainly kept captive in the cellar for several days, and regularly tortured and abused, until she was finally killed.
He still kept his army in Spain, and this proceeding determined Portugal to accede to some slight alterations in the first treaty.
NSA departments, and acertain level of distinction that came from the company he kept.
We kept up with the morphine, and I gave her a little Acetaminophen to ease her temperature.
When I was carrying Achates he kept me with him even though he hated me!
By mixing with milk of lime, the acidity is neutralised, zinc oxide and calcium sulphite are thrown down, and a solution of neutral sodium hydrosulphite is obtained which is more stable and can be kept longer without decomposition.
She knew that I was acquainted with those circumstances, and my presence was evidently unpleasant to her, for she had certainly no wish that the old man should hear how she kept her promise.
The vaccine you took, the poisons, the adjuvants, they would have kept away, pushed down, your need for sex.
I cast a hungry gaze on this young lady without more ado, just as if all the women in Europe were only a seraglio kept for my pleasures.
The sign advertised the grand opening, phone and location of the store and kept roaming through the neighborhood for four days.