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KEEP QUIET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does keep quiet mean?
• KEEP QUIET (verb)
The verb KEEP QUIET has 1 sense:
1. refrain from divulging sensitive information; keep quiet about confidential information
Familiarity information: KEEP QUIET used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Refrain from divulging sensitive information; keep quiet about confidential information
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
keep one's mouth shut; keep quiet; shut one's mouth
Context example:
Don't tell him any secrets--he cannot keep his mouth shut!
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
talk (divulge confidential information or secrets)
Context examples
Mother! he retorted, will you keep quiet?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I hope I am as fond of my child as any mother, but I do not know that I am of any more use in the sick-room than Charles, for I cannot be always scolding and teazing the poor child when it is ill; and you saw, this morning, that if I told him to keep quiet, he was sure to begin kicking about.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“Mother, you keep quiet.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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