Encourage and Keeps

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

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Keeps is an antonym for encourage.

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

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Encourage is an antonym for keeps in prevent topic.

In the episode The Meach Harvest, Mung Daal refuses to harvest the queen meach due to his fear of the meaches guarding her whilst Chowder keeps trying to encourage him to face his fears.

Source: Face Your Fears
The game keeps a "morality" statistic and humanises some of the mooks in order to encourage stealth via Videogame Caring Potential.

Source: Video Game / Second Sight
My Girl Is Not a Slut: Betsy's friend keeps a calendar of her sexual activity to try and encourage her to get more action; Sinclair has daily orgies with his three girlfriends on black silk sheets.

Source: Literature / Betsy the Vampire Queen

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