Add
Add verb - Make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of.
Usage example: Add insult to injury
Take away
Take away verb - Take out or remove.
Both terms in one sentence
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Source: Simple, yet Awesome - After "Name"'s success, the band began to add more of John's songs and take away Robby's - in every album after Let Love In, Robby only had two songs.
Source: Music / The Goo Goo Dolls -
What happens when you take a Touhou game, take away the extra lives, disable bombs and continues, and add in several Classic Video Game "Screw You"s inspired by Kaizo Mario World?
Source: Bullet Hell
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