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keeps pace

keeps pace is the third-person singular simple present indicative of keep pace.

Meaning of keep pace

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To run at the same speed as a pacesetter
  2. (idiomatic) To progress at the same rate as another; to keep up
    • As he had grown older, he found that he had grown away from his people. Their interests and his were far removed. They had not kept pace with him, nor could they understand aught of the many strange and wonderful dreams that passed through the active brain of their human king. So limited was their...1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 12, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert]...

Questions about keeps pace

What is keeps pace the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Keeps pace is the third-person singular simple present indicative of keep pace.

Words near keeps pace in the dictionary

  1. keeps one's word
  2. keeps oneself to oneself
  3. keeps order
  4. keeps out
  5. keeps out of
  6. keeps pace
  7. keeps quiet
  8. keeps rank
  9. keeps schtum
  10. keeps score
  11. keeps shtum

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