Keep and Placing

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

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Placing is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

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Keep is an antonym for placing in topics: order, locate.

Nearby Words: place, placed, placement

In A Song of Ice and Fire, Jon Connington is dying from greyscale, and tries to keep it secret from his men so he can fulfill his dream of placing Aegon on the throne.

Source: Secretly Dying
He ends up burying it as deep as he can, and placing bent springs and broken glass around the body to keep the livestock away.

Source: Due to the Dead
By carefully placing a wrench on the floor in System Shock 2, you can keep an area from sealing.

Source: Sequence Breaking

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