Keep and Lend

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Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.

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Lend is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Lend verb - To give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned.

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Keep is an antonym for lend in loan topic.

Nearby Words: Lent, lending, lender

power	keep power	lend power
name	keep name	lend name
time	keep time	lend time
face	keep face	lend face
Other words: money, head, magic, ship, hands, powers, weapons.

There's an NPC in Anistar you can lend one of your Pokémon to to keep him company.

Source: Video Game / Pokémon X and Y
Kimblee goes along with the military's genocide in Ishval, but chooses to keep the Philosopher's Stone they lend him to test it out, killing the people who know he has it.

Source: Neutral Evil
This is a guy so powerful the RPG supplement says the Chaos gods lend him daemons to keep him from beating them up and taking their lunch money.

Source: Literature / Drachenfels

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