Keep and Overthrowing

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

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Overthrowing is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

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Keep is an antonym for overthrowing in defeat topic.

Nearby Words: overthrow, overthrown

Kronos devoured his children to keep them from overthrowing him, thus providing Zeus with the motivation to do just that.

Source: Video Game / God of War Series
The beginning of Fable III is about you overthrowing a monarch, at the end of Traitor's Keep, its about another trying to overthrow you, seeing you as a tyrant...the themes come full circle.

Source: Video Game / Fable III

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