Keep and Offend

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Keep

Keep verb - Conform one's action or practice to.
Usage example: keep appointments
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Offend is an antonym for keep.
Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Offend

Offend verb - Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises.
Usage example: offend all laws of humanity
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Synonyms for Offend
Antonyms for Offend
Keep is an antonym for offend.
Nearby Words: offensive, offence, offender, offending, offensively
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Common collocations

character keep character offend character
people keep people offend people
someone keep someone offend someone
audience keep audience offend audience
Other words: way, anyone, everyone, friends.

Both words in one sentence

  • Defied Trope Contrasting the invoked Bodyguard Crush in Kaze no Stigma, Kazuma goes out of his way to keep Ayano at a distance and offend her as much as possible so she doesn't get attached to him either.
    Source: Defied Trope
  • Film / Girl with a Pearl Earring In order to keep her position, Griet must fight her feelings for her master, not offend his patron, and keep her head down around Catharina.
    Source: Film / Girl with a Pearl Earring
  • For this reason, anyone with iron in a shadowrealm will usually keep their iron tucked away somewhere so they don't offend an elder.
    Source: Cold Iron
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