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What does keep back mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word keep back? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To hold back; to refuse to give or share.
  2. (transitive) To restrict or restrain.
  3. (transitive) To prevent (a pupil) from advancing in a course.
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Such is the depravity of man in general, that did not the Lord keep back even the regenerate from evils and falses, he would cast himself headlong into hell.
The sound, the weirdness of the hooters in itself, would keep back a braver foe.
The poor man, when he accompanied me to the coach, he could barely keep back his tears.
My third and final question is this: what guarantees can the Commissioner give that the Council will keep back the proposed EUR 17.5 billion?
The group restored dunes to keep back the sea, allowing a freshwater wetland to form.
One must do a lot of frivoling in this world to keep back the tears that would come if one kept thinking of the truth.

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