Keep and Spares

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

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Spares is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

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Keep is an antonym for spares in topics: forgive, do or manage without.

She encounters and spares the life of a goblin named Cogswhallop, and soon finds herself waging a guerilla to keep goblins across the Realm from being slaughtered.

Source: Literature / The Goblin Wood
Subverted in W.I.T.C.H.. Despite being the Big Bad, Caleb's mother, Nerissa, deliberately spares him and tries to keep him out of battles.

Source: Offing the Offspring
After defeating her in battle, Kabuto spares her...only to keep her prisoner and barely alive, to slowly absorb Anko's chakra so he can get all of Orochimaru's power, coming from her Cursed Seal.

Source: Barrier Maiden

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