Kept
Kept adjective - (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded.
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Synonyms for Kept
Retreated
Both words in one sentence
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She wasn't locked up, but she'd been kept in the house in daylight hours for many years and always retreated to her room when visitors came, so no one knew she was there until after her brother's murder.
Source: Madwoman in the Attic -
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...
Source: Ambiguous Innocence -
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
Source: Upper-Class Twit
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