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Keep up   /kip əp/   Listen
Keep up

verb
1.
Maintain a required pace or level.
2.
Lengthen or extend in duration or space.  Synonyms: prolong, sustain.  "Prolong the treatment of the patient" , "Keep up the good work"
3.
Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction.  Synonyms: conserve, maintain, preserve.  "The old lady could not keep up the building" , "Children must be taught to conserve our national heritage" , "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"
4.
Keep informed.  Synonyms: follow, keep abreast.
5.
Prevent from going to bed at night.  "I kept myself up all night studying for the exam"





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"Keep up" Quotes from Famous Books



... with Eunice until her death. Of course, we haven't heard from them since. The Starkweathers naturally did not wish to keep up a close acquaintanceship with me ...
— The Girl from Sunset Ranch - Alone in a Great City • Amy Bell Marlowe
... Mrs. Sharpe, not moving a muscle. "Eat your supper, and keep your eyes off the window if she comes in. Keep up heart, and think of the word on the ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... considerable difficulty in tracing, at all satisfactorily, the sources of the magnificent fortune which must have been required to keep up, and to embellish in accordance with so luxurious a taste, so many residences in all parts of the country. True, these expenses often led Cicero into debt and difficulties; but what he borrowed from his friends he seems ...
— Cicero - Ancient Classics for English Readers • Rev. W. Lucas Collins
... of GDP and about 90% of the labor force; cash crops - coffee, tea, pyrethrum (insecticide made from chrysanthemums); main food crops - bananas, beans, sorghum, potatoes; stock raising; self-sufficiency declining; country imports foodstuffs as farm production fails to keep up with a ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... time he followed his mysterious guide in melancholy silence. There was only room for them to walk in single file, and it took him some trouble to keep up. Sometimes it seemed to him that they would leave the path and go straight through the trackless depths of the wood, with a quickness and assurance that astonished him. Then again they would apparently fall upon a path for a time, ...
— Vandrad the Viking - The Feud and the Spell • J. Storer Clouston


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