All keep synonyms

verb keep

• foster — to promote the growth or development of; further; encourage: to foster new ideas.
• guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
• mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
• nourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
• nurture — to feed and protect: to nurture one's offspring.
• ordain — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
• provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
• safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
• shelter — something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
• shield — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
• subsidize — to furnish or aid with a subsidy.
• subsidise — to furnish or aid with a subsidy.
• victual — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
• carry on — If you carry on doing something, you continue to do it.
• look after — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• watch over — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• hold in — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• stifle — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
• stash — to put by or away as for safekeeping or future use, usually in a secret place (usually followed by away): The squirrel stashes away nuts for winter.
• shelve — to place (something) on a shelf or shelves.
• file — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
• go on — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• keep on — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• hold up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• cheque — A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• avert — If you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
• constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
• hamper — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
• hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• shackle — a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
• stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.