Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Put through is an antonym for keep.
Put through
Put through verb - To carry through (as a process) to completion.
Both terms in one sentence
- Fluff and humor bits are few and far between, but there are just enough to keep the audience from completely drowning in the angst, and they're all the more rewarding after the characters (especially Cloud) are put through hell again and again.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Final Fantasy VII - In cases when the parent is physically present but emotionally and mentally a Missing Mom or Disappeared Dad; or when the child is abused or orphaned or otherwise put through upheaval — they cope by creating a friend from their imagination to keep them company.
Source: Imaginary Friend -
As long as the girls give birth to sons, they're allowed to live (and keep getting put through the same thing); but if they give birth to daughters, he kills the mothers and drops off the baby girls at a church.
Source: Series / Criminal Minds
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