Verb
keep together (third-person singular simple present keeps together, present participle keeping together, simple past and past participle kept together)
To strive to maintain a group; to prevent a group from separating; to remain together.
He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support. Mary Renault