KEEP UP Synonyms: 108 Similar and Opposite Words

keep up

verb

Definition of keep up next

as in to survive

to continue to operate or to meet one's needs let's hope that old air conditioner keeps up through this heat wave

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as in to preserve

to keep in good condition kept the house up while the owners were gone

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as in to remain

to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state let's hope this beautiful weather keeps up for the rest of our vacation

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Recent Examples of keep up Township crews have been producing roughly 3,500 sandbags an hour to keep up with hundreds of calls from homeowners in low-lying areas along the river. —

Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026 Nunley said the system is struggling to keep up with the crush of cases. —

Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026 Keith Horne of South Africa, who began the final round with a one-shot lead, couldn't keep up with Cink's and fell back with a double bogey on the par-4 12th hole. —

ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026 The Nevada Irrigation District says the increases are necessary to fix aging infrastructure while keeping up with rising costs. —

Conor McGill, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for keep up

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Only one cardinal survived—smells like a snitch—and Urban was apparently disappointed by how little the other captive cardinals had screamed.

— Jane Bua, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Smaller bush-type, or determinate, tomatoes can survive without support, but staking can help in the long run.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026