| 单词 | to keep back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep back to keep back 1. transitive. To restrain; to detain; to hold back forcibly; to retard the progress, advance, or growth of. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restrain [verb (transitive)] pindeOE steerc950 hold971 forbidc1000 withstewc1175 withholdc1200 stewa1225 crempa1250 bistintc1300 i-stillc1315 withdraw1340 entemperc1380 rebukec1380 forfenda1382 refraina1382 refrainc1390 restraina1393 restayc1400 retainc1415 to hold abackc1440 overholda1450 reclaim?c1450 revokec1450 bedwynge1480 sniba1500 repressa1525 rein1531 inhibit1535 to keep back1535 cohibit1544 reprimec1550 lithe1552 to rein up1574 check1581 embridle1583 to rein in1593 retrench1594 refrenate1599 to hold back1600 snip1601 becheck1605 sneap1611 trasha1616 supersede1645 reprimand1689 snape1691 to clap a guy on1814 to pull up1861 to pull in1893 withstrain1904 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings iv. 24 Dryue forth, and kepe me not bak with rydinge. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccclxiijv I haue kept backe no man from the true Religion. 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. i. §98. 468/1 He..strongly kept back the Turk from encroachments upon his Dominions. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 310 The Wheat stands, to endure a farther ripening, being kept back by the Chill Winds. 1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 556 Bine that has been kept back..by cold weather. 1890 G. M. Fenn Double Knot I. iv. 129 She made a brave effort to keep back her tears. 2. To withhold; to retain or reserve designedly; to conceal. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (transitive)] > keep what is due to or desired by another ofholdOE withholdc1200 abstaina1387 keep?1463 to hold up?1499 refrain?1504 outhold1512 detainc1535 to keep back1535 subtracta1538 substract1542 to hold out1907 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] > keep back, not mention heelOE to hold back1535 whust1558 whist1570 to keep in1574 to keep back1612 to keep up1678 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxxix. [xl.] 10 I kepe not thy louynge mercy..backe from the greate congregacion. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. L4v The church will keepe no part of the liuing backe from the pastor, if he doe his dutie. 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 120 Some are so close, and reserved, as they..seeme alwaies to keepe back somewhat. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. i. ii. vii Long keppen back from your expecting sight. 1888 G. Gissing Life's Morning II. xv. 302 It really seemed to me as if she were keeping something back. 3. intransitive. To hold oneself or remain back. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > be or remain at a distance [verb (intransitive)] to stand apart1538 to stand off1600 to hold off1604 to keep awaya1616 to keep offa1616 distance1658 to keep one's luff1682 to keep back1836 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) iv. 35 There was a request to ‘keep back’ from the front. < as lemmas |
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