Keep and Passes

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

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Passes is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

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Keep is an antonym for passes in topics: give, go by, rid of waste.

The more time passes, the harder it becomes to keep those impulses under control.

Source: The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
But if you keep wearing them, as the time passes, the color blends, and the indigo becomes more blue and vivid.

Source: Manga / Ai Yori Aoshi
Matt as Keeper Yennin passes the noise off as a fart and everyone except Taliesin loses it one by one until even Matt can't keep a straight face.

Source: Web Video / Critical Role

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Passes and Keep. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/passes

Keep & Passes. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/passes>.

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