Bear and Keep

Bear

Bear verb - To keep in one's mind or heart.

Usage example: I'm not one to bear grudges

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Keep and bear are semantically related in hold topic. In some cases you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Bear", when it comes to topics like maintain.

Nearby Words: bearing, bearish, bearer, bearskin, beared

Keep verb - To continue to have in one's possession or power.

Usage example: keep my secret and don't tell it to anyone

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Bear and keep are semantically related in hold topic. Sometimes you can use "Bear" instead a verb "Keep", if it concerns topics such as maintain.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

power	bear power	keep power
life	bear life	keep life
children	bear children	keep children
name	bear name	keep name
Other words: relationship, number, time, face, items, daughter, names, weapons.

The concept of a citizen militia dates back to 12th century English common law, and its requirement that royal subjects keep and bear arms for military duty.

Source: Useful Notes / American Gun Politics
Pakistan has both a constitutional guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms and a strong social tradition of firearms ownership, especially in rural and tribal areas.

Source: Everyone Is Armed
When they discover that a faction is smuggling nuclear weapons from our timeline in order to set up a dictatorship, they refuse to act because the right to keep and bear arms is sacred.

Source: Sliding Scale of Libertarianism and Authoritarianism

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