"keep a low profile" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-keep a low profile.ogg [Australia] Forms: keeps a low profile [present, singular, third-person], keeping a low profile [participle, present], kept a low profile [participle, past], kept a low profile [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> a low profile}} keep a low profile (third-person singular simple present keeps a low profile, present participle keeping a low profile, simple past and past participle kept a low profile)
  1. (idiomatic) Be quiet and discreet. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: keep one's head down, lie low Translations (Be quiet): تَوَارَى عَنْ الْأَنْظَار (tawārā ʕan al-ʔanẓār) (Arabic), držet se zpátky [imperfective] (Czech), držet se při zemi [imperfective] (Czech), chovat se nenápadně [imperfective] (Czech), pitää matalaa profiilia (Finnish), faire profil bas (French), se tenir à carreau (French), sich zurückhalten (German), sich unauffällig verhalten (German), meghúzza magát (Hungarian), háttérben marad (Hungarian), háttérbe húzódik (Hungarian), kerüli a feltűnést/nyilvánosságot (Hungarian), meglapul (Hungarian), nie wychylać się [imperfective] (Polish), nie wychylić się [perfective] (Polish), aja com discrição (Portuguese), тихариться (tixaritʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-keep_a_low_profile-en-verb-mQSdmMiF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "Be quiet",
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Be quiet",
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      "sense": "Be quiet",
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      "sense": "Be quiet",
      "word": "sich unauffällig verhalten"
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      "sense": "Be quiet",
      "word": "meghúzza magát"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "Be quiet",
      "word": "háttérben marad"
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      "sense": "Be quiet",
      "word": "háttérbe húzódik"
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      "sense": "Be quiet",
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      "sense": "Be quiet",
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      "word": "nie wychylić się"
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      "sense": "Be quiet",
      "word": "aja com discrição"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tixaritʹsja",
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