Keep and Turn on

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

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Turn on and keep are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Turn on" instead a verb "Keep".

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Turn on verb - To take sudden, violent action against.

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Keep and turn on are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Turn on".

Namely, after losing the Winter War noted above, Hitler decided that the Soviet Union was too pathetic to keep as allies, and decided to turn on them.

Source: Lets Get Dangerous / Real Life
With Friends Like These...: Job's visitors keep insisting that he must have done something to deserve all his suffering, and turn on him when he denies it.

Source: Literature / Book of Job
Asgore has regretted it ever since, but is forced to keep up the ruse because the people would turn on him if he didn't.

Source: Anti Villain / Video Games

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