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keep collapse: the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress; maintain by writing regular records; "keep a diary"; "maintain a record"; "keep notes"; hold and prevent from leaving; "The student was kept after school"; retain possession of; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married"; look after; be the keeper of; have charge of; "He keeps the shop when I am gone"; maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"; have as a supply; "I always keep batteries in the freezer"; "keep food for a week in the pantry"; "She keeps a sixpack and a week's worth of supplies in the refrigerator"; store or keep customarily; "Where do you keep your gardening tools?"; supply with room and board; "He is keeping three women in the guest cottage"; "keep boarders"; raise; "She keeps a few chickens in the yard"; "he keeps bees"; keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"; maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger; "May God keep you"; fail to spoil or rot; "These potatoes keep for a long time"

cooler collapse: a refrigerator for cooling liquids; a cell for violent prisoners; an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice

least collapse: something that is of no importance; "it is the least I can do"; "that is the least of my concerns"; used to form the superlative; "The garter snake is the least dangerous snake"

insurance collapse: promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company

lock in collapse: place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"; close with or as if with a tight seal; "This vacuum pack locks in the flavor!"

intern collapse: an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term); work as an intern; "The young doctor is interning at the Medical Center this year"; deprive of freedom; "During WW II, Japanese were interned in camps in the West"

pall collapse: burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped; lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"; become less interesting or attractive; cause to become flat; "pall the beer"; cover with a pall

intensive care collapse: close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions

operating room collapse: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"

blackout collapse: a momentary loss of consciousness; the failure of electric power for a general region; darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft); a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting

lexeme collapse: a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'

dispensary collapse: clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed

bamboo curtain collapse: an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s

competence collapse: the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

security blanket collapse: a blanket (or toy) that a child carries around in order to reduce anxiety; anything that an adult person uses to reduce their anxiety

obligate collapse: restricted to a particular condition of life; "an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of OXYGen"; commit in order to fulfill an obligation; "obligate money"

few collapse: a small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few"; an indefinite but relatively small number; "they bought a case of beer and drank a few"; a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number; "a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle"

fifth column collapse: a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst

hostage collapse: a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms

lowest collapse: in the lowest position; nearest the ground; "the branch with the big peaches on it hung lowest"

ounce collapse: a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams; a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound

remand collapse: the act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial)

antonym collapse: a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"

homonym collapse: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings

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