Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Opening up is an antonym for keep.
Opening up
Keep is an antonym for opening up in topics: communicate, confess, let go, make aware, discharge a projectile.
Both terms in one sentence
- In the 1962 Lolita, Humbert and a hotel employee spend an eternity opening up a little cot he had requested to keep up appearances — then when he has to use it, it promptly collapses on him.
Source: Murphy's Bed - Arantir from Dark Messiah was determined to keep your demon sovereign father from opening up back into the world, but to do so, he needed souls to empower the barrier.
Source: Anti Villain / Video Games
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