Keep down meaning
Keep down is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is to eat or drink without vomiting afterwards.
- Past simple
- kept down
- Past participle
- kept down
- -ing form
- keeping down
What keep down means
retain foodB2
To eat or drink without vomiting afterwards
After the operation, she couldn't keep any food down.
1 more meaning of keep down is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With keep: keep on doing, keep in, keep off, keep on, keep out, keep up, keep away, keep back, keep from doing, keep in with.
With down: turn down, let down, put down, slim down, go down, come down, break down, take down, set down, tie down.
Common questions
What does keep down mean?
It has 2 meanings. One of them is to eat or drink without vomiting afterwards. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of keep down?
Kept down, 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.
