Drop
Drop verb - To stop doing (something) permanently.
Usage example: isn't it time you dropped that smoking habit and spent your money on better things?
Keep
Keep verb - To continue to have in one's possession or power.
Usage example: keep my secret and don't tell it to anyone
How words are described
| good | good drop | good keep |
| valuable | valuable drop | valuable keep |
| full | full drop | full keep |
| better | better drop | better keep |
| Other adjectives: normal, specific, short, regular, original, straight, single, open, visible, small, actual, massive, big, extreme, huge, slight, major, dramatic, extra. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Another had an in-flight vulture clutching a piano in his claws, about to drop it on a crawling desert wayfarer to keep the guy from reaching a waterhole.
Source: Piano Drop - And yet he takes a minute to stupidly keep asking who they are, instead of following their order for him to drop his gun on the ground.
- He eventually gets the Bears to promise to stop doing that, and when he declares that he wants to ride a roller coaster instead of a horsey ride, they keep their word and don't drop a 16-ton safe on him... they drop two of them.
Source: Exact Words / Western Animation
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