Keep and Love

Keep

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

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

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Love verb - To hold dear.

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Keep and love are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Love".

Nearby Words: loving, lovely, lover, loved, lovable

sweet	sweet keep	sweet love
human	human keep	human love
old	old keep	old love
good	good keep	good love
Other adjectives: best, perfect, complete, original, single, actual, big, extreme, great, main.

power	keep power	love power
baby	keep baby	love baby
man	keep man	love man
job	keep job	love job
Other words: children, family, someone, time, way, characters, world, anyone, daughter, humans, kids.

His love for Utena doesn't keep him from trying to control her anyway, and in the end she doesn't love him back.

Source: Ladykiller in Love
Some writers adore this trope and like to keep the tension going by throwing in the occasional moment where Bob reveals some love for Alice, just to leave the viewers wondering what's really going on.

Source: Mad Love
Shinji gets there in time (thanks to, among other things, Misato's car and Rei's Evangelion), but Asuka decides that it would be kinder to Shinji to let him keep the image of a strong, self-reliant love in his mind rather than a broken, depressed love physically.

Source: Race for Your Love

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