Usually means: Withhold, reserve, or hold back.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word keep back:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. keep (someone or something) back, keep back: Merriam-Webster
  2. keep back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keep back: Collins English Dictionary
  4. keep back: Vocabulary.com
  5. keep (sth/sb) back: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. keep back: Rhymezone
  7. keep back: FreeDictionary.org
  8. keep back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. keep back: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. keep back: Wiktionary
  11. keep back: Dictionary.com
  12. keep back: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

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

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

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (keep back)

verb:  (transitive) To hold back; to refuse to give or share.
verb:  (intransitive) To stay back; to refrain from approaching.
verb:  (transitive) To restrict or restrain.
verb:  (transitive) To prevent (a pupil) from advancing in a course.

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