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keep at

keep at verb: to persist in.

Verb

keep at (third-person singular simple present keeps at, present participle keeping at, simple past and past participle kept at)

  1. (transitive) To persist in.
    • Learning a new language is hard, but if you keep at it, you'll get better.
  2. (transitive) To constrain (a person) to continue doing (a task).
    • If he doesn't get back to you right away, just keep at him and eventually you'll get an answer.

keep at meaning in Malayalam

keep at in Malayalam

carry on with, persevere with, persist with
തുടർച്ചയായി ചെയ്യുക, തുടർന്നുകൊണ്ടേയിരിക്കുക, നിർബ്ബന്ധബുദ്ധിയോടെ തുടരുക, നിരന്തരം പരിശ്രമിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുക, വിടാതെ പിടിച്ചുനിൽക്കുക, അശ്രാന്തം പരിശ്രമിക്കുക

Forms of keep at

third-person singular presentkeeps at
present participlekeeping at
past participlekept at
pastkept at

Questions about keep at

What does keep at mean?
Keep at means to persist in.
What is keep at in Malayalam?
Keep at in Malayalam is തുടർച്ചയായി ചെയ്യുക, തുടർന്നുകൊണ്ടേയിരിക്കുക, നിർബ്ബന്ധബുദ്ധിയോടെ തുടരുക. See Keep at meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is keep at?
Keep at is a verb.
What is the past tense of keep at?
The past tense of keep at is kept at.

Words near keep at in the dictionary

  1. keep an eye out
  2. keep an eye peeled
  3. keep an eye skinned
  4. keep apace
  5. keep around
  6. keep at
  7. keep at arm's length
  8. keep away
  9. keep away from
  10. keep back
  11. keep body and soul together

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Adapted from Wiktionary: keep at (page history and authors); keep at (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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