v.
1.maintain a required pace or level
2.lengthen or extend in duration or space
3.keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
4.keep informed
5.prevent from going to bed at night
Idiom of the Day
one's stamping grounds
a place where a person spends much of his or her time
My cousin went back to his old stamping grounds which he remembered as a teenager.