Keep and Take

Opposite meaning words

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

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Take is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Take verb - To reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms.

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Keep is an antonym for take in topics: require, consume, contract, carry, accept.

Nearby Words: taking, taken, taker

good	good keep	good take
clear	clear keep	clear take
best	best keep	best take
normal	normal keep	normal take
Other adjectives: usual, perfect, complete, original, single, actual, massive, big, great, huge, dark, personal, major, dramatic.

power	keep power	take power
life	keep life	take life
people	keep people	take people
word	keep word	take word
Other words: job, name, control, time, way, money, names.

The announcer ends by advertising this device with the slogan to keep the things you want to keep and take out the things you do not.

Source: Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
This means that you cannot take and keep him in the party from the beginning of the game anymore without cheating.

Source: Video Game / Baldur's Gate
Sypnosis: SG-1 manages to take and keep the Ha'tak that Thor took to Earth in the season six episode "Descent".

Source: Fanfic Recs / Stargate SG-1

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