keep from

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To prevent or restrain (someone or something) from; to refrain or cause to refrain from.
   • It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared...2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
2. (transitive) To make and cause to remain secret.
   • What else did your brother keep from me?
3. (transitive) To cause to be excluded or not present.
   • He could not keep the sadness from his trembly voice.
   • I don't want to keep you from school.
4. (transitive) To protect or preserve from.
   • As a mother, I wanted to keep my son from harm.