Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Substitute is an antonym for keep.
Substitute
Substitute verb - To give up (something) and take something else in return.
How words are described
| good | good keep | good substitute |
| best | best keep | best substitute |
| looking | looking keep | looking substitute |
| better | better keep | better substitute |
| Other adjectives: perfect, complete, regular, original, small, powerful, actual, big, great, black, magic. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In Trinity Blood, the Methuselah can normally keep their thirst for human blood under control using an artificial substitute.
Source: Horror Hunger -
Cue the narrator declaring that being honest does not keep you from starving to death and principles are a poor substitute for money.
Source: Fractured Fairy Tale -
The villain's nefarious plan is to come up with a working substitute for human blood and keep all the other benefits.
Source: Film / Daybreakers
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