keep off's Usage Examples:

pilgrim's hat, cockel hat or traveller's hat is a wide brim hat used to keep off the sun.

Also singular, "keep off the board".

With things such as cork hats popularized to help keep off the fly, the gesture can be spotted across the country, not just in regional.

they presume that the jar served (1) to keep elpis for man, or (2) to keep off elpis from man.

A thrown axe could keep off a hailstorm, sometimes an axe was placed in the crops, with the cutting.

warn seafarers away from dangerous shallow waters by calling out "keep off, keep off, good ship from me, for I am the rock of misery".

opposite side of which is a tower built by the 'Omani Wali of Dhufar to keep off the attacks of hostile Mahras.

Synonyms:

uphold; bear on; conserve; housekeep; maintain; pressurize; distance; pressurise; preserve; continue; carry on; hold over; hold;

Antonyms:

discontinue; far; close; behave; rise;