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kept tryst

kept tryst is the simple past and past participle 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 kept tryst

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

Words near kept tryst in the dictionary

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

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