KEEP ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does keep on mean? 

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

1. allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KEEP ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

continue; keep; keep on; retain

Context example:

this garment retains its shape even after many washings

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

keep up; prolong; sustain (lengthen or extend in duration or space)

Verb group:

continue; persist in (do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

Why could he not keep on quarreling with you, as his father did before him?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There are several days to keep on your radar that show great possibility for romance—single or attached, these days look quite divine.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"We must journey on until we find the road of yellow brick again," said Dorothy, "and then we can keep on to the Emerald City."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“Fan ’em, Jack; keep on fanning ’em!”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They did not quite know what to say or do, as they were ignorant of the amount of my knowledge; so they had to keep on neutral subjects.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It impressed one with its sullen determination to blow, and blow harder, and keep on blowing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I'm glad you began at once, and hope you will keep on.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Look, do you see that large cauldron of water which I am obliged to keep on the fire!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The worst of it is that the poor boy will keep on this way until he deteriorates into a first-class newspaper man and also a first-class scoundrel.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Were you addressing me, sir? says the doctor; and when the ruffian had told him, with another oath, that this was so, I have only one thing to say to you, sir, replies the doctor, that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)