Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Taking over is an antonym for keep.
Taking over
Taking over noun - Acquisition of property by descent or by will.
Both terms in one sentence
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Weekend Inventor: Cutter, who invented insta-buildings dropped from orbit and the technology to keep Emmett's mutation from taking over.
Source: Video Game / Starhawk - It concerns the protagonists' fight to keep the Shadow from taking over the Middle Kingdoms.
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Enemy Within: He constantly struggles to keep his natural animalistic rage from taking over his humanity.
Source: Comic Book / Wolverine
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