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keep tryst

keep tryst verb: to wait for a person at the appointed place and time.

Verb

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

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) To wait for a person at the appointed place and time.
    • Mr. Venus undertook to produce it again in the morning, and to keep tryst with Mr. Wegg on Boffin's doorstep as the clock struck ten.1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    bide tryst

Synonyms of keep tryst

Forms of keep tryst

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

Questions about keep tryst

What does keep tryst mean?
Keep tryst means to wait for a person at the appointed place and time.
What part of speech is keep tryst?
Keep tryst is a verb.
What is the past tense of keep tryst?
The past tense of keep tryst is kept tryst.

Words near keep tryst in the dictionary

  1. keep to one's knitting
  2. keep to one's own knitting
  3. keep to oneself
  4. keep together
  5. keep track
  6. keep tryst
  7. keep under
  8. keep up
  9. keep up appearances
  10. keep up with
  11. keep up with the Joneses

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