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English
Verb
keep off (third-person singular simple present keeps off, present participle keeping off, simple past and past participle kept off)
- (transitive, intransitive) To stay or cause to stay at a distance (from).
Please keep off the grass.
You keep the dogs off while I go and knock on the door.
1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:"Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.
Translations
to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)