Keep and Sacrifice

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

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Sacrifice is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Sacrifice verb - To give up as an offering to a god.

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Keep is an antonym for sacrifice in let go topic.

full	full keep	full sacrifice
perfect	perfect keep	perfect sacrifice
complete	complete keep	complete sacrifice
regular	regular keep	regular sacrifice
Other adjectives: original, proper, small, actual, massive, big, great, huge, black, personal.

humanity	keep humanity	sacrifice humanity
power	keep power	sacrifice power
life	keep life	sacrifice life
baby	keep baby	sacrifice baby
Other words: people, children, family, time, way, world, anyone, everyone, humans, friends, powers.

Taryn Arkor, who was using the sword to keep himself alive, recharged it via his fellow descendants, splitting them into sacrifice victims and breeders of future sacrifice victims.

Source: Targeted Human Sacrifice
The couple boast that they use to be so powerful people would make sacrifices to them daily, but time moves on and they've assimilated themselves into modern culture and now only kidnap a couple people a year to sacrifice and keep themselves going.

Source: Gods Need Prayer Badly
An episode of Supernatural ("Scarecrow") involves townspeople performing a yearly sacrifice of a man and a woman to a Norse god in order to keep the town prosperous.

Source: Human Sacrifice

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