Keep and Need

Opposite meaning words

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

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Need is an antonym for keep in hold topic.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Need verb - To have as a requirement.

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Keep is an antonym for need.

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

human	human keep	human need
old	old keep	old need
good	good keep	good need
usual	usual keep	usual need
Other adjectives: specific, original, single, powerful, actual, big, extreme, great, huge, inner, personal, dramatic.

attention	keep attention	need attention
character	keep character	need character
power	keep power	need power
people	keep people	need people
Other words: name, someone, time, way, money, magic, items, eyes, friends, powers, weapons.

You lose the former, but you keep and need the later to recruit one character: your old sabrecat pet Borongo.

Source: Memento MacGuffin
Doesn't help that you need to keep resetting the final dungeon to even find enemies worth fighting for more experience.

Source: Absurdly High Level Cap
Castiel tends to fall in to this as well, likely because he's so powerful the writers feel they need to gimp him to keep the Badass Normals relevant.

Source: Strong as They Need to Be

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