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keep the peace

keep the peace verb: to maintain order and peace in a volatile situation.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To maintain order and peace in a volatile situation.
    • The police were called in to keep the peace during the political demonstration.

keep the peace meaning in Tamil

keep the peace in Tamil

அமைதி காத்து நடந்துகொள், சச்சரவுப்படாமல் நடந்துகொள்

Forms of keep the peace

third-person singular presentkeeps the peace
present participlekeeping the peace
past participlekept the peace
pastkept the peace

Questions about keep the peace

What does keep the peace mean?
Keep the peace means to maintain order and peace in a volatile situation.
What is keep the peace in Tamil?
Keep the peace in Tamil is அமைதி காத்து நடந்துகொள், சச்சரவுப்படாமல் நடந்துகொள். See Keep the peace meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is keep the peace?
Keep the peace is a verb.
What is the past tense of keep the peace?
The past tense of keep the peace is kept the peace.

Words near keep the peace in the dictionary

  1. keep the field
  2. keep the flag flying
  3. keep the home fires burning
  4. keep the lights on
  5. keep the pace
  6. keep the peace
  7. keep the pot boiling
  8. keep the powder dry
  9. keep the rent down
  10. keep the rent low
  11. keep the show on the road

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Adapted from Wiktionary: keep the peace (page history and authors); keep the peace (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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