Allow and Keep

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Allow verb – To give permission for or to approve of.

Usage example: flash photography is not allowed inside the church

Keep is an antonym for allow in topics: set aside, admit, permit an action.

Nearby Words: allowance, allowable, allowing

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Keep verb – Stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state.

Usage example: Keep the child from eating the marbles

Allow is an antonym for keep in prevent topic.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

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power	allow power	keep power
people	allow people	keep people
children	allow children	keep children
name	allow name	keep name
Other nouns: control, time, way, characters, world, game, anyone, humans, friends, players, powers, weapons.

Instead, they're what allow him to instantaneously heal and keep fighting akin to his devil fruit's namesake.

Source: Faux Flame
Peter the Great disagreed and banned them as part of his reforms although he was forced to allow priests to keep theirs so that they became Holy Beards instead.

Source: Useful Notes / Tsarist Russia
His Improbable Aiming Skills allow him to keep himself from hitting Lois, instead missing her by "scant inches".

Source: Improbable Aiming Skills

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Keep and Allow. (2016). Retrieved 2021, January 24, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow/keep

Allow & Keep. N.p., 2016. Web. 24 Jan. 2021. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow/keep>.

Keep or Allow. 2016. Accessed January 24, 2021. https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow/keep.

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