KEEP IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does keep in mean? 

• KEEP IN (verb)
  The verb KEEP IN has 1 sense:

1. cause to stay indoors

  Familiarity information: KEEP IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KEEP IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to stay indoors

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "keep in" is one way to...):

confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Keep in mind that, Mercury went retrograde in Scorpio October 31 and will remain retrograde until November 20.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I will leave you this card so that you may be able to keep in touch with us.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It will smell,” I said, “but it will keep in the heat and keep out the rain and snow.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Having passed the wall, we took our way to the house, taking care to keep in the shadows of the trees on the lawn when the moonlight shone out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Here are some other things to keep in mind about cold and cough medicines.

(Cold and Cough Medicines, Food and Drug Administration)

The brain contains a master clock that keeps the rest of the body in sync, using light signals from the eyes to keep in time with environment.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

She was up in my study, Peggotty said: which it was her pride to keep in readiness and order for me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Keep in mind - if it sounds too good to be true, it's probably a scam.

(Health Fraud, Food and Drug Administration)

You have but one end to keep in view—how the work you have undertaken can best be done.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Nobody did, however, and nobody saw Beth wipe the tears off the yellow keys, that wouldn't keep in tune, when she was all alone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)