| VERB | competition | keep up | maintain a required pace or level |
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| stative | keep up, prolong, sustain | lengthen or extend in duration or space | |
| possession | keep up, conserve, preserve, maintain | keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | |
| change | keep up, keep abreast, follow | keep informed | |
| body | keep up | prevent from going to bed at night |
| Meaning | Maintain a required pace or level. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Example | "He could not keep up and dropped out of the race" | |
| Entails | compete, vie, contend | compete for something |
| Narrower | keep step, keep pace | Maintain the same pace |
| See also | keep | keep in a certain state, position, or activity |
| Meaning | lengthen or extend in duration or space. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "keep up the good work" | |
| Synonyms | prolong, sustain | |
| Narrower | retain, continue, keep, keep on | Allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature |
| Broader | continue, uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve | Keep or maintain in unaltered condition |
| See also | keep | keep in a certain state, position, or activity |
| Spanish | prolongar, sostener | |
| Meaning | Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "The old lady could not keep up the building" | |
| Synonyms | conserve, preserve, maintain | |
| Narrower | embalm | preserve a dead body |
| hold the line | hold the line on prices | |
| plastinate | preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes | |
| Broader | keep | look after |
| Spanish | conservar, llevar, mantener, preservar | |
| Catalan | conservar, preservar | |
| Meaning | Keep informed. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | keep abreast, follow | |
| Similar to | trace, follow | Follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something |
| Spanish | estar al corriente, estar al día, estar al dìa, mantenerse al corriente, mantenerse al día, seguir | |
| Catalan | estar al corrent, estar al dia, seguir | |
| Meaning | prevent from going to bed at night. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Cause to | stay up, sit up | not go to bed |
| Spanish | mantener despierto, quedarse despierto, quedarse levantado | |
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