Keep and Pay up

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Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.

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Pay up is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Pay up verb - To give what is owed for.

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Keep is an antonym for pay up in topics: give, pay, pay off.

The reason games had limited lives in the first place was because they were originally developed for arcade machines, and making players pay up to keep playing meant more profits for arcade owners, whereas you don't pay to keep playing games on your personal gaming systems.

Source: The Artifact / Video Games

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