Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Lay on
Lay on verb - To put a layer of on a surface.
Keep is an antonym for lay on in topics: award, thrust, give large gift, make a gift of, divulge information.
Both terms in one sentence
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She lay on the floor for a few moments, too dazed and confused to feel any pain, struggling to keep her heart from bursting out of her chest.
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An American sailor on one of the destroyers at the Battle Off Samar was split open crotch to throat by a Japanese shell splinter, but still lay on the deck next to his gun mount, shouting encouragement to his fellow crewmen and begging someone to keep firing the gun.
Source: I Can Still Fight
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