"keep back" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> back"
      },
      "expansion": "keep back (third-person singular simple present keeps back, present participle keeping back, simple past and past participle kept back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold back; to refuse to give or share."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_back-en-verb-3PHrwaPd",
      "links": [
        [
          "hold back",
          "hold back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To hold back; to refuse to give or share."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 52 9 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stay back; to refrain from approaching."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_back-en-verb-YZfh43iO",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To stay back; to refrain from approaching."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London)",
          "text": "Germany eased off in the second half and this was a night when Joachim Löw, like Southgate, took the opportunity to keep back his best XI.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To restrict or restrain."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_back-en-verb-f6zZ7zC0",
      "links": [
        [
          "restrict",
          "restrict"
        ],
        [
          "restrain",
          "restrain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To restrict or restrain."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zadǎržam",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "задържам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "skrivam",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "скривам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "tilbageholde"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "terughouden"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "reteni"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "retenir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "zurückhalten"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "visszatart"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "coisc"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "ritenere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "reprimō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "dētineō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "holde tilbake"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "reter"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "retener"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 90 2",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "restrict or restrain",
          "word": "hålla tillbaka"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To prevent (a pupil) from advancing in a course."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_back-en-verb-ZPuiRZJV",
      "links": [
        [
          "advancing",
          "advance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To prevent (a pupil) from advancing in a course."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep back"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> back"
      },
      "expansion": "keep back (third-person singular simple present keeps back, present participle keeping back, simple past and past participle kept back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold back; to refuse to give or share."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hold back",
          "hold back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To hold back; to refuse to give or share."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stay back; to refrain from approaching."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To stay back; to refrain from approaching."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London)",
          "text": "Germany eased off in the second half and this was a night when Joachim Löw, like Southgate, took the opportunity to keep back his best XI.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To restrict or restrain."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "restrict",
          "restrict"
        ],
        [
          "restrain",
          "restrain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To restrict or restrain."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To prevent (a pupil) from advancing in a course."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "advancing",
          "advance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To prevent (a pupil) from advancing in a course."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zadǎržam",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "задържам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "skrivam",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "скривам"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "tilbageholde"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "terughouden"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "reteni"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "retenir"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "zurückhalten"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "visszatart"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "coisc"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "ritenere"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "reprimō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "dētineō"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "holde tilbake"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "reter"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "retener"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "restrict or restrain",
      "word": "hålla tillbaka"
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep back"
}