Hand over and Keeps

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Hand over verb - To give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress.

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Keeps is an antonym for hand over.

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Hand over is an antonym for keeps in topics: hold, commemorate, tend, prevent.

Stan and Kyle are uncertain about this, but when he gets them, he quickly finds a reason not to hand over any calves, and keeps bargaining for more.

Source: You Said You Would Let Them Go
Cassandra Truth: At one point, Pearl suggests that Hester wears the scarlet letter for the same reason Dimmesdale keeps his hand over his heart.

Source: Literature / The Scarlet Letter
As we see later, Doom is a toon, and has pretty obviously damaged his fake/glass eye (note the way he carefully keeps his hand over it, to keep his toon eye from bugging out).

Source: Film / Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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