to keep safe
9
1.8
- phrasal verb
- /kip seɪf/
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- I will make sure all your belongings are kept safe.
- keep safe and secure
Make sure you're all keeping safe and you've got to stay at.
- Make sure you're all keeping safe and you've got to stay at.
- So do keep logging, do keep safe.
- And it'll look at you and just go, do I have to kill you to keep safe?
- In many cases, there's basically nobody minding the store, meaning that children in the environment are not kept safe.
- And ever since I've known Ayaan, I've felt a powerful obligation to protect her and make sure that she is kept safe.
- And so, you know, there's this whole thing of, you know, being kept safe from things that you don't like or disagree with.
- Our nervous systems hold our child selves and fears that we needed to keep safe.
Examples
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All the accidents he had prevented... all the lives he had kept safe.
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I must see for myself how this village is kept safe.
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And I have something that I need you to keep safe for me.
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Above all else, it must be kept safe.
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The mayor himself asked me to attend, make sure the good people of the city are kept safe.
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Many of these young adults reported carrying a weapon to keep safe.
Academic text (2009) -
They need equipment to keep safe while doing their jobs.
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Hi Kylie, I am glad that the student was kept safe.
Blog text (28) -
The actual diamond is kept safe in the vaults.
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I need you to keep safe this box while I am away from home.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To protect someone or something from harm
∞
1.0
To keep someone or something safe from harm
∞
1.0
Rescue someone or something from danger
∞
1.3
To protect people and things from attack or harm
496
3.4
To keep people and things safe from harm or change
352
1.9
To protect someone, for example by guarding them in a game
146
2.7
To protect someone or something from harm
84
1.3
To take care to avoid a problem or danger
56
3.3
To protect people or things from harm
45
3.7
To protect someone or something from harm
43
4.8
To keep someone or something safe from harm
4
4.1
Look out for each other in dangerous situations
3
3.8
To protect a person or thing from harm
2
9.9
To stop danger or harm from happening
1
3.2
Reduce the chance of harm to people or places
To stop something bad from happening
Antonyms
How Protective
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'keep' (protect, maintain) combined with 'safe' (protected from danger) yields 'keep safe' meaning 'ensure something remains protected.' This verb + adjective construction is a transparent, cross-linguistically common pattern that a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand.
Etymology
Keep safe comes from the simple image of using keep to 'hold' something close or put it in a locked safe so it cannot be harmed. So, keep safe means 'to protect someone or something from danger or loss'.