Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Prompt
Prompt verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).
How words are described
| old | old keep | old prompt |
| normal | normal keep | normal prompt |
| usual | usual keep | usual prompt |
| specific | specific keep | specific prompt |
| Other adjectives: short, original, single, unofficial. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Person as Verb: Whenever Stephanie screws up or she can't keep up with the conversation together with the siblings, that would prompt them to scold her for being such a "Steph", much to her chagrin.
Source: Light Novel / No Game No Life - Opening a spanned archive would result in a prompt for the first diskette... and it would keep asking you until you produced that diskette.
Source: Darth Wiki / Idiot Programming -
They will keep gear you tell them to equip on their person, but you get a prompt explaining it will be treated as a gift.
Source: Video Game / Dragon's Dogma
Cite this Source
Prompt and Keep. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/prompt
Keep & Prompt. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/prompt>.
Prompt or Keep. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/prompt.
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