Distribute and Keep

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Distribute

Distribute verb - To give as a share or portion.
Usage example: committed to distributing the school's limited scholarship money so that it benefits more students
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Keep is an antonym for distribute in topics: classify, allocate.
Nearby Words: distribution, distributed, distributing, distributor, distributive

Keep

Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
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Synonyms for Keep
Antonyms for Keep
Distribute is an antonym for keep.
Nearby Words: keeping, keeper
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Common collocations

power distribute power keep power
people distribute people keep people
track distribute track keep track
money distribute money keep money
Other words: game, information, items, powers.

Both words in one sentence

  • Evil Lawyer Joke: Sleazy Lawyers, who distribute your smack and keep you out of trouble.
    Source: Video Game / Clicking Bad
  • If you're writing a novel or a movie script, you have time to gather and lay out all of your ideas, parse out all of the bad ones, and distribute them equally over your work to keep it interesting.
    Source: Bottom of the Barrel Joke
  • While they do some pretty terrible things, they're regarded as a necessity for order, since they re-distribute wealth to the poor, and keep some degree of order on the thieves, murderers and prostitutes.
    Source: Thieves' Guild
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