Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Object
Object verb - To present an opposing opinion or argument.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| valuable | valuable keep | valuable object |
| normal | normal keep | normal object |
| specific | specific keep | specific object |
| original | original keep | original object |
| Other adjectives: single, small, powerful, actual, massive, big, dangerous, black, main, important, magic, unknown, nearby, floating, eponymous. | ||
Common collocations
| job | keep job | object job |
| family | keep family | object family |
| relationship | keep relationship | object relationship |
| control | keep control | object control |
| Other words: time, characters, money, anyone, daughter. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- The game of tossing an object around in a group to keep it away from someone else.
Source: Keep Away - In the Isaac Asimov's Robot City series, two specialised security robots ordered to guard a valuable object have trouble with this concept — so, rather than lock the object in a safe, they keep it on a table so they can watch it all the time.
Source: No Object Permanence - This is an application of Newton's First Law of Motion (Inertia): an object will not move unless a force acts upon it, but also an object will keep moving unless a force acts to counter it.
Source: Analysis / Gravity Sucks
Cite this Source
Object and Keep. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/object
Keep & Object. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/object>.
Object or Keep. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/object.
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