Keep and Propel

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

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Propel is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Propel verb - To apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one.

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Keep is an antonym for propel in throw topic.

Nearby Words: propelled, propelling

humanity	keep humanity	propel humanity
character	keep character	propel character
body	keep body	propel body
rest	keep rest	propel rest
Other words: way, characters, game, story, head, ship, player, everyone, players.

If you keep looking up and down repeatedly it will somehow propel you up above the clouds.

Source: Minus World
Several grams are suffisient to keep the surface of Moon-sized satellite at room temperature or to propel a spaceship.

Source: Literature / Nova
Since cells are too early in their evolution to have limbs, the only way to propel onself is through inertia from ejecting pieces of itself, and once started, the cell will keep going due to inertia.

Source: Gravity Sucks

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