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keeping tryst

keeping tryst is the present participle and gerund of keep tryst.

Meaning of keep tryst

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

Questions about keeping tryst

What is keeping tryst the present participle and gerund of?
Keeping tryst is the present participle and gerund of keep tryst.

Words near keeping tryst in the dictionary

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

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