Keep and Pick up

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

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

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Pick up verb - To acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in.

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Keep and pick up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Pick up".

In the Thief games, anything you pick up and keep that isn't a weapon or used to solve a puzzle is this.

Source: Vendor Trash
Evidence Scavenger Hunt: At first, the game presents you with a lot of notes and posters you can pick up and keep, making them seem to be relevant later on.

Source: Videogame / Firewatch
Must be part of the reason he and Tycho get on so well - they've both been hurt terribly, they've both had to pick up and keep going and have healed, more or less, even if there are scars.

Source: Stoic Woobie

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