"keep off" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: keeps off [present, singular, third-person], keeping off [participle, present], kept off [participle, past], kept off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> off}} keep off (third-person singular simple present keeps off, present participle keeping off, simple past and past participle kept off)
  1. (ambitransitive) To stay or cause to stay at a distance (from). Tags: ambitransitive Translations (to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)): fernhalten (German), abhibeo (Latin), hålla borta (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "\"Keep off Conductor Rails\" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.",
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          "sense": "to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)",
          "word": "fernhalten"
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          "sense": "to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)",
      "word": "fernhalten"
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      "sense": "to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)",
      "word": "abhibeo"
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      "sense": "to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)",
      "word": "hålla borta"
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