Keep and Lug

Keep

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

Lug is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Lug

Lug verb - To cause to follow by applying steady force on.

Keep is an antonym for lug in drag something around topic.

Common collocations

character keep character lug character
body keep body lug body
way keep way lug way
weapons keep weapons lug weapons

Both words in one sentence

  • The council of robot elders in Futurama didn't keep the other robots enslaved, but used anti-human propaganda to keep the populace distracted from the real problems facing their society (like a lug-nut shortage and a government of incompetent robot elders).
  • Doorstopper Keep in mind how lucky we are today compared to the 20th century and before, when bookworms had to decide if they really wanted to lug the doorstopper of a book they were really enjoying with them on the bus to work.
    Source: Doorstopper
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