Keep and Salvage

Keep

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

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

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Salvage verb - Save from ruin, destruction, or harm.

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Keep and salvage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Salvage".

character	keep character	salvage character
body	keep body	salvage body
family	keep family	salvage family
relationship	keep relationship	salvage relationship
Other words: rest, show, time, world, game, story, sanity, weapons.

He's already in hot water for sleeping with a copy girl, but makes things even worse when he tries to salvage it by stating he was trying to keep Rachel from finding out about it the whole time.

Source: Digging Yourself Deeper
Demon of Human Origin: Ferriman reveals himself to be one of Hell's agents, a "salvage expert" responsible for collecting new souls to bring back home and keep The Management happy.

Source: Film / Ghost Ship
In the pilot episode, the characters had to do this against the Alliance to keep from getting boarded and searched as they do some illegal salvage — unfortunately for our heroes, their residual heat signature is still detected so they have to escape by throwing out a decoy.

Source: Silent Running Mode

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