Encourage and Keep

Opposite meaning words

Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.

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Keep is an antonym for encourage.

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

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

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Encourage is an antonym for keep in prevent topic.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

character	encourage character	keep character
people	encourage people	keep people
peace	encourage peace	keep peace
children	encourage children	keep children
Other words: relationship, rest, audience, way, characters, anyone, player, everyone, daughter, humans, kids, friends, players.

Dumb Dinos: An Enforced Trope in Homchen, where the antagonists encourage the dinosaurs to evolve spinal brains instead of their heads, to keep them as obedient Dumb Muscle.

Source: Creator / Kurd Laßwitz
An Enforced Trope in Homchen by Kurd Laßwitz, where the birdlike antagonists encourage the dinosaurs to evolve spinal brains instead of their heads, to keep them as obedient Dumb Muscle.

Source: Dumb Dinos
She tries to encourage gang wars to keep the neighborhood edgy, and treats hipsters like members of an invading army.

Source: Series / Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

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