Keep and Repel

Keep

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

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

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Repel verb - To drive back.

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Keep and repel are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Repel".

Nearby Words: repelled, repelling

character	keep character	repel character
man	keep man	repel man
people	keep people	repel people
team	keep team	repel team
Other words: time, information, magic, anyone, everyone, humans, enemies.

The only way to really repel him is to keep pushing him away and refusing or, for a quicker and more intimidating way, threaten him with a knife.

Source: Video Game / A Dance with Rogues
One raises the drawbridge in order to repel a goblin invasion, the other opens the floodgates that keep your fortress from flooding with magma.

Source: Video Game / Dwarf Fortress
About the biggest challenge in creating a day-and-night dynamic is to keep the attract and repel cases relatively balanced.

Source: Opposites Attract

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