Usually means: Maintain distance to avoid contact.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word keep away:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. keep-away: Merriam-Webster
  2. keep away: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keep away: Collins English Dictionary
  4. keep away: Vocabulary.com
  5. keep-away: Wordnik
  6. keep (sb/sth) away: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. keep-away, keep away: Wiktionary
  8. keep away: Dictionary.com
  9. Keep Away (song), Keep Away, Keep away: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. keep away: Rhymezone
  11. keep away: FreeDictionary.org
  12. keep away: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. keep away: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. keep away: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep away: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep away: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep away: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep away: Idioms

(Note: See keep_aways as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (keep away)

verb:  (intransitive) To refrain from coming (near).
verb:  (transitive) To prevent from coming (near).

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