Cure and Keep

Cure

Cure verb - Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve.

Usage example: cure hay

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Keep and cure are semantically related in cooking topic. In some cases you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Cure", when it comes to topics like preserve, cook.

Nearby Words: cured, curing, cureless, curable, curability

Keep

Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.

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Synonyms for Keep

Antonyms for Keep

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

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Mutual synonyms

How words are described

old	old cure	old keep
best	best cure	best keep
better	better cure	better keep
usual	usual cure	usual keep
Other adjectives: perfect, complete, original, proper, single, actual, great, main, important, magic.

Common collocations

character	cure character	keep character
man	cure man	keep man
people	cure people	keep people
someone	cure someone	keep someone
Other words: time, characters, world, anyone, everyone, daughter, sister.

Both words in one sentence

Then comes the ending, and it's revealed that he has no cure, he just wants to keep Derek close by for further testing and doesn't care at all what he did to him.

Source: Bait the Dog
The Batman has an episode where he and Batgirl keep getting snatched from them (or dropped) the antidote that will cure the three villains.

Source: Keep Away
Knights of the Old Republic: The Sith keep the rakghoul cure to themselves so their troops can walk around the Undercity without opposition.

Source: Withholding the Cure

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