KEEP QUIET Definition & Meaning

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keep quiet

Also, be quiet or still . Remain silent; same as hold one's tongue . For example, Please keep quiet about the party . Also see keep one's mouth shut .
Refrain from moving, stay in the same position; same as hold still . For example, The doctor gave the young boy a toy to keep him quiet while on the examining table , or It's hard for the baby to keep still unless he's sleeping . [Late 1300s]

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Also, keep still .

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Many details of the event were kept quiet for decades, and it is far less famous than some of the more recent examples.

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Six days before Christmas, Jenson Brooksby took to social media to share something he had "kept quiet for his entire life".

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At this point Annie got out her phone to take a photograph of the men, and this prompted the other man to offer her money to keep quiet.

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After two below-par showings with the bat in the series so far, there was a sense that Australia could not be kept quiet for long and that a statement innings was due.

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President Biden had mostly kept quiet during the investigations into his son but came fiercely to his defence in his pardoning.

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