Assist
Assist verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Keeps
Both words in one sentence
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A variant has a midwife, who is given the ointment so she can assist with a faerie birth, but secretly keeps some of it with the same consequences.
Source: See-Thru Specs -
In Young Wizards, a whale wizard recruits the human protagonists to assist in an underwater ritual that keeps a malevolent supernatural presence contained.
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Most notably the V-801 Mag Lance (depicted here with Omni-Frame lift assist), which costs more than a small spaceship and does 1,000 damage with each shot, and the shell keeps going until its done that much.
Source: BFG
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