Keep and Reciting

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

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Reciting is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

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Keep is an antonym for reciting in narrate topic.

Nearby Words: recite, recitation, recital, recited, reciter

Madness Mantra: Peter often tries to keep himself calm by reciting the first few lines of the "Litany Against Fear" from Frank Herbert's Dune.

Source: Western Animation / Earthworm Jim
In what is possibly the silliest usage of this one, the Torchwood episode "They Keep Killing Suzie" has the team locked in by a crazy man reciting Emily Dickinson.

Source: All Your Base Are Belong to Us
If it's just a one-line observation (or Angie helpfully reciting, step-by-step, the procedure you're doing as you do it for the fifth time), you won't even be interrupted and the clock will keep ticking.

Source: Videogame / Trauma Center

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