keep up

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (transitive) To maintain; to preserve; to prevent from deteriorating or falling.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To continue with (work, etc).
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To stay even or ahead.
  4. To ensure that one remains well-informed about something.
  5. To prevent someone from going to bed or to sleep
  6. (obsolete) To use capital letters as much as reasonable.

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keep down
Etimologie (Engels)

In summary

From Middle English kepen up (“to perpetuate, maintain, preserve”), equivalent to keep + up.

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