Keep and Retrieve

Keep

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

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

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Retrieve verb - To get again in one's possession.

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Keep and retrieve are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Retrieve".

body	keep body	retrieve body
eye	keep eye	retrieve eye
time	keep time	retrieve time
way	keep way	retrieve way
Other words: money, information, head, ship, items, sister, weapons, memories.

The Guardians of the Galaxy and The X-Men are racing against time and traveling through space in order retrieve the artifact and keep it out the hands of evil.

Source: Comicbook / The Black Vortex
Final Fantasy VII: The heroes retrieve the Black Materia in order to keep it away from Sephiroth, but once it's been unsealed, he just mind-controls Cloud into giving it to him.

Source: Nice Job Breaking It Hero / Video Games
A King throws a golden cup into some rough water and declares that whoever can retrieve it can keep it.

Source: Family-Unfriendly Aesop

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