Forget and Keep

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Forget

Forget verb - To miss the opportunity or obligation.
Usage example: I forgot to call on his birthday
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Synonyms for Forget
Antonyms for Forget
Keep is an antonym for forget.
Nearby Words: forgetful, forgetting, forgetfully

Keep

Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Usage example: keep the Sabbath by not working
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Synonyms for Keep
Antonyms for Keep
Forget is an antonym for keep in topics: commemorate, tend.
Nearby Words: keeping, keeper
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Common collocations

people forget people keep people
promise forget promise keep promise
name forget name keep name
relationship forget relationship keep relationship
Other words: time, fact, way, face, characters, identity, world, game, eyes, friends, memories.

Both words in one sentence

  • Western Animation / Danger Mouse Rather than keep the audience in suspense, this fact is revealed immediately (with Penfold suggesting it's perhaps not a good move when DM genuinely did forget the Professor's birthday last year).
    Source: Western Animation / Danger Mouse
  • In Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny there are creatures who appear on the Roadnote a highway that allows to travel to any time as well as to alternate histories of Earth as old humans, live so long they forget their past and slowly keep getting younger.
    Source: Merlin Sickness
  • Although they promise to keep his secret, Darkwing decides to guarantee that by hypnotizing them to forget the fact while instructing them to treat Drake Mallard with some respect.
    Source: Reunion Revenge
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