Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb keep_away

1 sense of keep away

Sense 1
keep away -- (prevent from coming close; "I tried to keep the child away from the pool")
       => prevent, keep -- (stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles")