Jail and Keep

Jail

Jail noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.

Usage example: sentenced to three years in jail for his crime

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Keep and jail are semantically related in free topic. In some cases you can use "Keep" instead the word "Jail" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: jailed, jailer, jailing, jailor

Keep noun - The act or activity of keeping something in an existing and usually satisfactory condition.

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Jail and keep are semantically related in free topic. Sometimes you can use "Jail" instead the word "Keep" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

human	human jail	human keep
old	old jail	old keep
full	full jail	full keep
normal	normal jail	normal keep
Other adjectives: regular, small, actual, big, private, personal, nearby.

Thou Shalt Not Kill: After Batman beats The Joker literally to within one punch of his life, Joker mentions that if Batman doesn't kill him, he'll just break out of jail and keep on killing.

Source: Western Animation / Robot Chicken
Since his personal philosophy is to simply throw someone in jail to keep them from getting into trouble until he can legally free them, it's not a stretch that it was arranged for those prisoners to be kept comfortable until they were proven innocent.

Source: Luxury Prison Suite
A Secret Circle of Secrets of similar survivors and casualties of superpowered violence use their immense wealth and influence to keep Castle out of jail and killing all the supers he can.

Source: Cape Busters

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