Keep-up Definition

verb

To maintain; to preserve; to prevent from deteriorating.

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(idiomatic) To continue with (work, etc).
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(intransitive, idiomatic) To stay even or ahead.
They ran so fast I could hardly keep up.
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To ensure that one remains well-informed about something.
I always try to keep up with ("keep up on") current affairs.
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Keep-up Sentence Examples

  • I'm not sure I can keep up with her.

  • She said nothing and trotted to keep up with his long stride.

  • I'm ready to forgive you, but we're never going to put this in the past if you keep up this farce.

  • Apart from conquest their most important function has been to keep up communications in central Asia, and to transport religions and civilizations from one region to another.

  • All these forces were equally necessarythe revolutionists to keep up agitation and make government by bayonets impossible; the moderates to curb the impetuosity of the revolutionists and to present a scheme of society that was neither reactionary nor anarchical; the volunteers abroad to gain military experience; and the more peaceful exiles to spread the name of Italy among foreign peoples.

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Words Starting With

KKEKEE

Words Ending With

PUP

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keep-up

Words Starting With K and Ending With P

Starts With K & Ends With PStarts With KE & Ends With PStarts With K & Ends With UP

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With K7 Letter Words Ending With P