Break
Break verb - Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises.
Usage example: break a law
Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Usage example: keep the Sabbath by not working
How words are described
| good | good break | good keep |
| full | full break | full keep |
| clean | clean break | clean keep |
| best | best break | best keep |
| Other adjectives: short, complete, single, small, actual, massive, big, huge, slight, main, major, dramatic, multiple, longest, didn't. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Frederone can choose to keep or break his promise, and his choice has a significant impact on the plot.
Source: Visual Novel / Winter Shard - Later, during a break where they try to turn Loup with comfort instead, they admit Loup represents a great excuse to just keep torturing her endlessly to find out what would break a fearless GMO.
Source: Literature / Santa Olivia -
Cardboard Prison: For a prison designed to keep the most destructive being in the world, it sure is pretty easy to break-in to and break-out its only captive.
Source: Video Game / Dragonica
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