kept away from
Maintained distance from
Kept away from means maintained distance from something or someone, either physically or figuratively.
It suggests deliberate avoidance or being prevented from approaching: She kept away from the edge of the cliff, He was kept away from the other children after the incident.
The phrase implies sustained effort or enforcement rather than momentary separation.
- avoidedDeliberately stayed away from
- steer clearActively avoid something
- distanceSpace between two points
- arm's lengthDeliberate professional distance
- social distancingDeliberate interpersonal spacing
quarantine · ostracism · cold shoulder · exile · excluded · off limits · prohibition · banishment · estrangement · no contact · limits · out of bounds · aloofness · segregation · abstention · shunned · given the brush off · alienation