Keep and Pack

Keep

Keep verb - To place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability.
Usage example: I keep extra toothbrushes for unexpected overnight guests

Pack and keep are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pack" instead a verb "Keep".

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Pack

Pack verb - To close up so that no empty spaces remain.

Keep and pack are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Pack".

Nearby Words: packed, packaging, package, packet, packing

Mutual synonyms

How words are described

old old keep old pack
full full keep full pack
normal normal keep normal pack
fast fast keep fast pack
Other adjectives: complete, regular, original, single, small, actual, massive, great, huge, main, major, extra, unofficial, creepy.

Common collocations

power keep power pack power
family keep family pack family
number keep number pack number
house keep house pack house
Other words: time, items, weapons.

Both words in one sentence

  • Your pack mules are included in this, so counter-intuitively your party can keep track of less animals as there are more of you.
  • Escape 2000: the heroes are a pack of gang members and hoodlums, whose efforts to keep the Bronx safe for drug dealing and petty crime only come out looking heroic because the bad guys are killing people with flamethrowers more or less indiscriminately.
  • Useful Notes / The London Underground Normally, people — or at least Brits — would keep a bit more distance from each other, but that's just not practical in the pack cylinder shaped cars of the tube lines, so instead they retreat into the mind and ignore it.
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