Break and Uphold

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Break verb - To cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly.

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Uphold is an antonym for break.

Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Uphold verb - To continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections.

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Break is an antonym for uphold.

Nearby Words: upholder, upholding

spirit	break spirit	uphold spirit
people	break people	uphold people
promise	break promise	uphold promise
word	break word	uphold word
Other words: vow, deal, way, rule, law, tradition, code, masquerade, oath, rules, laws.

In Tom's defence, he was going to uphold the deal, but the minute Team Matheson got into the control room on level 12, Tom orders the troops to break into the room and kill them all.

Source: You Said You Would Let Them Go
This creed is a set of 3 rules that the Eidolon swears to uphold at the cost of their very existence, and when they break any of them, their very soul starts to fall apart.

Source: Blue And Orange Morality / Tabletop Games
Amoral Attorney: Inverted in Alan Shore (he's more than happy, eager even, to bend or break legal ethics to uphold his own moral ones).

Source: Series / Boston Legal

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