Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Laying down is an antonym for keep.
Laying down
Both terms in one sentence
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The more realistic ones know that the odds of them ever doing so are almost zero, but keep fighting anyway since it beats laying down and accepting extinction.
Source: Galactic Conqueror -
Any one of the stunts they try to pull could easily have killed them, such as purposely crashing a motorcycle, laying down in the middle of a busy intersection, and laying down on train tracks, however they keep miraculously surviving unscathed, to their own annoyance.
Source: Death Seeker - In fact, he does lose respect for her — when she chooses to keep excusing their bad behavior rather than laying down the law, and tries to manipulate him into taking over again.
Source: Fanfic / For His Own Sake
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Laying down and Keep. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/laying_down
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