Keep back meaning
Keep back is a phrasal verb that means to hold a person or thing behind a boundary or away from a point.
- Past simple
- kept back
- Past participle
- kept back
- -ing form
- keeping back
What keep back means
B2
To hold a person or thing behind a boundary or away from a point
Barriers kept spectators back from the track.
Similar phrasal verbs
With keep: keep on doing, keep in, keep off, keep on, keep out, keep up, keep down, keep away, keep from doing, keep in with.
With back: bring back, come back, get back, give back, put back, go back, take back, call back, come back to, go back on.
Common questions
What does keep back mean?
To hold a person or thing behind a boundary or away from a point.
What is the past tense of keep back?
Kept back, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
