Word.ws English Dictionary

kept away from

kept away from is the simple past and past participle of keep away from.

Meaning of keep away from

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To avoid or eschew.
    • He tried to keep away from danger.
  2. (transitive) To deny (someone or something) access to, to maintain distance between.
    • He tried to keep Jack away from his daughter.

Questions about kept away from

What is kept away from the simple past and past participle of?
Kept away from is the simple past and past participle of keep away from.

Words near kept away from in the dictionary

  1. kept an eye peeled
  2. kept an eye skinned
  3. kept around
  4. kept at
  5. kept away
  6. kept away from
  7. kept back
  8. kept body and soul together
  9. kept boy
  10. kept boys
  11. kept cave

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kept away from (page history and authors); keep away from (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “kept away from.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kept_away_from. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.