Keep and Sidestep

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Keep

Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
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Sidestep is an antonym for keep.
Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Sidestep

Sidestep verb - To avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness.
Usage example: the eager enlistee sidestepped the regulations by lying about his age
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Synonyms for Sidestep
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Keep is an antonym for sidestep.
Nearby Words: sidestepped, sidestepping
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Common collocations

time keep time sidestep time
fact keep fact sidestep fact
game keep game sidestep game

Both words in one sentence

  • The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard That means that, even if you get smart, and try to sidestep, he'll just keep shooting until you take the hit.
    Source: The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
  • On the other hand, the only reason he is your enemy is because of a safety protocol intended to keep him from being subverted by the Kreegans (he cannot stop once he has started the destruction of a world), so him trying to sidestep it as much as is possible is only to be expected.
    Source: Enemy Mine / Video Games
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