Keep and Linger

Keep

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

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Linger and keep are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Linger" instead a verb "Keep".

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Linger verb - To move or act slowly.

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Keep and linger are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Linger".

Nearby Words: lingering, lingerer

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In the mini-series Whitechapel the camera would often linger on a red-headed nurse who worked in the hospital that the investigators keep visiting.

Source: Meaningful Background Event
In the Shirley Temple version, Rottenmeir wants Klara's disability to linger so she can keep a permanent position with the family (completely irrelevant in the original, were Rottenmier was always housekeeper and Klara suffers from never having been able to walk).

Source: Literature / Heidi
Cursed with a degenerative lung condition by his son's new allies, he's been effective ousted from power and left to slowly die - slowly, so Jeremy can keep his father informed on how well the company's doing without him, and so Dexter's suffering can linger on for decades.

Source: Dark Lord on Life Support

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