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housekept

housekept is the simple past and past participle of housekeep.

Meaning of housekeep

Verb

housekeep (third-person singular simple present housekeeps, present participle housekeeping, simple past and past participle housekept)

  1. (intransitive) To carry out the domestic duties of housekeeping.
    • I would go to school, and practise, and housekeep, and club; all in their proper proportions⁠——1904, Carolyn Wells, “The Decision”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 24
  2. (ambitransitive) To perform the general tasks of housekeeping.
    • The clock burst which enables the supervisor to housekeep the console input and output and to change program status is currently set to 200 ms.1965, P. A. Crisman, The compatible time-sharing system: a programmer's guide, page 14

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Questions about housekept

What is housekept the simple past and past participle of?
Housekept is the simple past and past participle of housekeep.

Words near housekept in the dictionary

  1. housekeeping
  2. housekeeping bill
  3. housekeeping bills
  4. housekeepings
  5. housekeeps
  6. housekept
  7. housekey
  8. housekeys
  9. Houseknecht
  10. Houseknechts
  11. housel

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