Keep and Terminate

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Keep

Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
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Antonyms for Keep
Terminate is an antonym for keep.
Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Terminate

Terminate verb - To let go from office, service, or employment.
Usage example: he was terminated for constantly coming in to work late
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Synonyms for Terminate
Antonyms for Terminate
Keep is an antonym for terminate in stop topic.
Nearby Words: terminal, termination, terminated, terminating, terminable
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Common collocations

life keep life terminate life
family keep family terminate family
relationship keep relationship terminate relationship
someone keep someone terminate someone
Other words: show, game, existence, everyone, humans.

Both words in one sentence

  • If the Thing Man Was Not Meant To Know doesn't force them to terminate it first, Man's determined to keep poking it until he Knows it anyway.
    Source: Science Cannot Comprehend Phlebotinum
  • It is used in one character's backstory to terminate an unwanted pregnancy ("unwanted" in the sense of politically inconvenient to the mother's family; she herself very much wanted to keep the baby).
    Source: Fantasy Contraception
  • Her whole life is this trope, fighting to keep her son safe from the machines sent to Terminate him.
    Source: Mama Bear / Live-Action TV
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