Keep and Scratched

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

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Scratched is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

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Keep is an antonym for scratched in cancel topic.

Nearby Words: scratch, scratchy, scratching

Brown scratched his head and even Majundar had to comment that the man certainly had chutzpah to keep serving him bacon every round.

Source: Series / Cutthroat Kitchen
This spell would have been very useful in the fight between Juliet and Mason to keep both characters from getting permanently transformed once Mason scratched Juliet.

Source: Forgotten Phlebotinum
After being scratched at a boat-party-turned-zombie-outbreak, Liv becomes a pale, white-haired zombie, still fully capable, but now with a hunger for brains (which help keep her higher brain functions).

Source: Vampire Detective Series

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