Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
How words are described
| good | good keep | good steal |
| normal | normal keep | normal steal |
| single | single keep | single steal |
| open | open keep | open steal |
| Other adjectives: massive, great, dangerous, private, ruthless. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Many standard missions are this, including Data Recovery (keep/steal data from the enemy fleet and warp out with it) and Assassination (destroy enemy ship before it warps/keep your ship alive until it warps).
- And once you take a prize, it's yours to keep...except a contestant doesn't just have to pick from the Dream Screen; they can steal a prize away from an opponent instead.
Source: Series / Take It All - Unlike your previous opponents, MSJH have much better defensive and ball-keeping stats than your vanilla footballers, and their Killer Techniques, especially those used to steal and keep the ball, are much stronger than most of your team's.
Source: Wake-Up Call Boss
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