Built and Kept

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Built adjective - (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness.

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Kept and built are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Kept" instead a verb "Built".

Nearby Word: build

Kept adjective - (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded.

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Built and kept are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Built" instead a verb "Kept".

In The Invisible Fortress, an elder woman Alayin tells the story about the invisible fortress that Odin built and kept guarded by the walkyrie Taymir.

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Daedalus, who later built the maze the Minotaur was kept in, built a hollow cow that Pasiphaë could climb in, and... you can guess what happens next.

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Sergeant Detritus has a helmet with built-in air-conditioning, since he can think better when his brain is kept cold.

Source: Nice Hat / Literature

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