Keep and Tend

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Keep verb - To look after and make decisions about.

Usage example: enlisted a relative to keep the store while she was away

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Tend is a synonym for keep in care for topic. In some cases you can use "Tend" instead a verb "Keep", when it comes to topics like own, raise.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Tend verb - To look after and make decisions about.

Usage example: the dying patriarch wondered who would tend the family business after he was gone

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Keep is a synonym for tend in care for topic. You can use "Keep" instead a verb "Tend", if it concerns topics such as maintain.

character	keep character	tend character
power	keep power	tend power
life	keep life	tend life
people	keep people	tend people
Other words: time, way, characters, game, hair, magic, eyes, names, kids, powers, weapons.

Some characters like Luffy and Zoro tend to keep similar pieces while Nami has had a massive amount of wardrobe variety.

Source: Unlimited Wardrobe
On the villainy side of things, Lex Luthor does plenty of work to keep himself safe from Superman, but these tend to come back and bite him.

Source: Crazy Prepared / Comic Books
And keep in mind that people like this tend to have pretty warped moral codes (they do kill people for a living after all).

Source: Hitman with a Heart

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