Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Ransom
Ransom verb - To free from captivity or punishment by paying a price.
Nearby Words: ransomed, ransoming
How words are described
| good | good keep | good ransom |
| complete | complete keep | complete ransom |
| proper | proper keep | proper ransom |
| small | small keep | small ransom |
| Other adjectives: big, huge. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- He puts phone books in the ransom case, and then hires the Dude to make the drop, confident that things will go awry, and no one will believe that the Dude didn't keep the money for himself.
Source: You Can Keep Her - The moray princess decides to keep Ariel as a pet then ransom her when they learn her and her sister Aquata are princesses.
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They eventually deduce that she was kidnapped at school given her uniform, being kept for ransom given that she was buried underground with a pipe extending to the surface to keep her alive.
Source: Film / A Lonely Place to Die
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