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Keep to meaning

Keep to is a phrasal verb that means to stay within a particular place, route, or part of an area.

Past simple
kept to
Past participle
kept to
-ing form
keeping to

What keep to means

B2

To stay within a particular place, route, or part of an area

Walkers should keep to the marked trail.

Similar phrasal verbs

With keep: keep on doing, keep in, keep off, keep on, keep out, keep up, keep down, keep away, keep back, keep from doing.

With to: refer to, amount to, put something to someone, set to, beat someone to it, come to, get to, go to, report to, see to.

Common questions

What does keep to mean?

To stay within a particular place, route, or part of an area.

What is the past tense of keep to?

Kept to, 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.

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