Keep and Sever

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Keep

Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
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Sever and keep are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sever" instead a verb "Keep".
Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Sever

Sever verb - To set or force apart.
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Keep and sever are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Sever".
Nearby Words: severity, severance, severing

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relationship keep relationship sever relationship
control keep control sever control
way keep way sever way
world keep world sever world
Other words: head, memories.

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  • Tabletop Game / Geist: The Sin-Eaters They try to help people avoid ending up in the Underworld by encouraging them to sever emotional ties that would keep them from passing on.
    Source: Tabletop Game / Geist: The Sin-Eaters
  • Video Game / Dwarf Fortress You can sever or shatter every limb a Night Beast has and gouge out their eyes, leaving them with nothing but teeth to bite into your inside, but they'll keep going.
    Source: Video Game / Dwarf Fortress
  • In Dune: House Harkonnen, Abulurd Harkonnen has a plan to sever his ties with his brother, the Baron Harkonnen and keep his homeworld of Lankiveil in the process - something which the Baron would almost certainly object to.
    Source: Exact Words / Literature
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