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keep to

keep to verb: to adhere strictly to; not to neglect or deviate from.

Verb

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

  1. To adhere strictly to; not to neglect or deviate from.
    • Keep to the traveled roads.
    • For example, the legal rule expressed by the provision "All road-users must keep to the right." projects as a possible general condition of the legal system that being road-user causes the obligation to keep to the right.2001, D. W. Ruiter, Legal Institutions, page 60
    Synonyms:
    stick to

keep to meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

keep to in Malayalam

abide by, obey, observe
അനുസരിക്കുക, പാലിക്കുക, വഴങ്ങുക, കേൾക്കുക, ആചരിക്കുക, അനുവർത്തിക്കുക
follow, stick to, stay on
വഴിവിട്ടലയാതെ നോക്കുക, ഗതി പിന്തുടരുക, മാറിപ്പോകാതിരിക്കുക, ഒരേവഴിയിലൂടെ പോവുക
stick to, restrict oneself to, confine oneself to
വിഷയത്തിൽ നിന്നു മാറാതിരിക്കുക, പരിധിയിൽ നില്ക്കുക, പരിധി വിടാതിരിക്കുക, സ്വയം കടിഞ്ഞാണിടുക, സ്വയം പരിമിതി കല്പിക്കുക

keep to in Kannada

ಬದ್ಧಪಡು, ಉಳಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಬಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಹೊಂದು

Synonyms of keep to

Forms of keep to

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

Words formed from keep to

Questions about keep to

What does keep to mean?
Keep to means to adhere strictly to; not to neglect or deviate from.
What is keep to in Malayalam?
Keep to in Malayalam is അനുസരിക്കുക, പാലിക്കുക, വഴങ്ങുക. See Keep to meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is keep to?
Keep to is a verb.
What is the past tense of keep to?
The past tense of keep to is kept to.

Words near keep to in the dictionary

  1. keep the rent down
  2. keep the rent low
  3. keep the show on the road
  4. keep the wolf from the door
  5. keep time
  6. keep to
  7. keep to one's knitting
  8. keep to one's own knitting
  9. keep to oneself
  10. keep together
  11. keep track

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: keep to (page history and authors); keep to (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); keep to (Kannada 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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