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kept pace

kept pace is the simple past and past participle 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 kept pace

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

Words near kept pace in the dictionary

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

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