Escort
Escort verb - To go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship.
Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
How words are described
| full | full escort | full keep |
| original | original escort | original keep |
| proper | proper escort | proper keep |
| small | small escort | small keep |
| Other adjectives: actual, massive, main, private, personal, unofficial. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The only AI-controlled ships requiring escort are miners and constructors, and team commanders can keep an eye on them and order them around to counteract their suicidal tendencies.
Source: Escort Mission -
You have to escort Doyle, a One-Hit-Point Wonder, it's dark, he doesn't fight, and he will relentlessly keep going along his predetermined path.
Source: Escort Mission -
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: FreeSpace 2 is filled with missions where you have to keep not only yourself but an escort ship alive until a certain point... at which point the escort is destroyed by overwhelming force from nowhere.
Source: Video Game / FreeSpace
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