(n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
(v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
(2) Months later the company released its free-to-play smartphone version of much-loved strategy classic, Dungeon Keeper, but the game was full of aggressively pushed in-app purchases.
(3) First-hand thoughts When I included the new Dungeon Keeper in my best apps of January roundups for Android and for iOS , there were some cross comments, asking why The Guardian would promote this game at the expense of other, more deserving titles.
(4) These projects will see existing Merlin brands such as The Dungeons adapted for the local market, in partnership with China Media Capital (CMC), it added.
(5) There are quite a few good things about new Dungeon Keeper: its sense of humour has survived the remaking process, and it’s visually polished.
(6) In the dungeons of Gaddafi, Mubarak or Assad they were beaten and hung from the walls, and in some cases had their genitals cut with a scalpel.
(7) Rather than explore dungeons slaying and looting, the game put you in charge of the dungeon, digging out new rooms and populating them with monsters and traps.
(8) Ideally, I'd like to work towards being on a yacht in the Caribbean with a dungeon in the hold.
(9) The key innovation is a new Villain role, which allows one player to take on the role of a Dungeon Master, arranging enemy traps and attacks.
(10) When not at work, they’re just as likely to enjoy walking the dogs or cuddling up on the couch in loungewear (possibly more likely: dolling oneself up for a living is exhausting) as demanding you get yourselves to a pay-by-the-hour dungeon.
(11) The result is an evolution for the series that lets players escape the linear dungeon-to-dungeon progression of its predecessors.
(12) Fifa sponsors’ pretence to principles give Blatter platform to make a stand | Marina Hyde Read more “Like the dungeon in the Fifa HQ, Fifa has become a very secretive place.
(13) That’s the implication (and, in fact, the straight accusation) of many of the game’s critics: that EA has ruined Dungeon Keeper and, by extension, this awful free-to-play business model is ruining games and screwing gamers.
(14) What I encountered was part reliquary, part freak show – and an impressive work of experience design, as stage-managed as anything in the London Dungeon .
(15) He recalled the stench and listening to the screams of others echoing through their sordid dungeon.
(16) Merlin, which also owns Madame Tussauds and the London Dungeon, will spend £53m over three years on the Nagoya park, while local partner Kirkbi Invest will raise the rest.
(17) Negative reviews The original Dungeon Keeper was brilliant.
(18) Positive reviews suggest the balance is much better than for the ill-fated Dungeon Keeper , released earlier in the year.
(19) Reynolds did paint histories, such as his scene from Dante of Ugolino and his children being starved to death in a dungeon, but, more successfully, he painted portraits that aspire to the condition of history.
(20) Rogue: Beyond The Shadows (Free) And some more dungeon-crawling in this polished action-RPG, with more goblins and golems than you can shake a (magical) stick at.
Keep
Definition:
(v. t.) To care; to desire.
(v. t.) To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain.
(v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor.
(v. t.) To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of.
(v. t.) To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.
(v. t.) To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.
(v. t.) To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.
(v. t.) To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to keep books, a journal, etc. ; also, to enter (as accounts, records, etc. ) in a book.
(v. t.) To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.
(v. t.) To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders.
(v. t.) To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.
(v. t.) To have habitually in stock for sale.
(v. t.) To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.
(v. t.) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to neglect; to be faithful to.
(v. t.) To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as, to keep one's house, room, bed, etc. ; hence, to haunt; to frequent.
(v. t.) To observe duty, as a festival, etc. ; to celebrate; to solemnize; as, to keep a feast.
(v. i.) To remain in any position or state; to continue; to abide; to stay; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out reach.
(v. i.) To last; to endure; to remain unimpaired.
(v. i.) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
(v. i.) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
(v. i.) To be in session; as, school keeps to-day.
(n.) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
(n.) The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case; as, to be in good keep.
(n.) The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse.
(n.) That which keeps or protects; a stronghold; a fortress; a castle; specifically, the strongest and securest part of a castle, often used as a place of residence by the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle.
(n.) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
(n.) A cap for retaining anything, as a journal box, in place.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
(2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(3) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(4) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
(5) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(6) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(7) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(8) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(9) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
(10) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(11) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(12) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(13) You can't spend more than you take in, and you can't keep doing it for ever and ever and ever.
(14) We need you, so keep us company for a while longer.
(15) Keeping calcium concentration constant in the medium (0.36 microM), ornithine transport was maximal at 5.0 microM L-arginine and decreased at higher concentrations of arginine.
(16) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(17) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
(18) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(19) "So we do what we can to keep the red tide from drowning us.
(20) Just when Everton thought they might start 2014 by keeping Liverpool out of the Champions League positions, they came close to failing the wet Wednesday at Stoke test thanks to a goal from an Anfield loanee.