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keeps tryst

keeps tryst is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 keeps tryst

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

Words near keeps tryst in the dictionary

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

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