HyperDic > KEE... > keep up

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Shopping	The largest selection of KEEP UP products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France.
TV Shop	As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products.

keep up > 5 senses
VERB	1	keep up	Maintain a required pace or level
	2	keep up, prolong, sustain	Lengthen or extend in duration or space
	3	keep up, conserve, preserve, maintain	Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
	4	keep up, keep abreast, follow	Keep informed
	5	keep up	Prevent from going to bed at night

keep up > verb 1, competition
Meaning	Maintain a required pace or level.
Pattern	Somebody ----s
Examples	"He could not keep up and dropped out of the race"
See also	keep
Narrower	keep step, keep pace
Entails	compete, vie, contend

keep up > verb 2, stative
Meaning	Lengthen or extend in duration or space.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
Examples	"keep up the good work"
Synonyms	prolong, sustain
Broader	continue, uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve
See also	keep
Narrower	retain, continue, keep, keep on, keep going

keep up > verb 3, possession
Meaning	Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Examples	"The old lady could not keep up the building"
Synonyms	conserve, preserve, maintain
Broader	keep
Narrower	embalm; plastinate; hold the line

keep up > verb 4, change
Meaning	Keep informed.
Pattern	Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP
Synonyms	keep abreast, follow
Similar to	trace, follow

keep up > verb 5, body
Meaning	Prevent from going to bed at night.
Pattern	Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody
Cause to	stay up, sit up

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