Keep and Typecast

Keep

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

Typecast is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Typecast

Typecast verb - Cast repeatedly in the same kind of role.

Keep is an antonym for typecast in topics: categorize, place in order.

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / The Petrified Forest When this play was picked to be filmed, Leslie Howard had to fight to keep Bogart for the film, which helped him make it back to Hollywood (typecast as gangsters until an even bigger break with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon).
  • Burn The Orphanage Bob Monkhouse said he'd been typecast in his serious drama roles (using Asshole Victim Sylvester Le Vey from Jonathan Creek as an example) as "the sort of man who would keep his cocoa warm by burning down an orphanage".
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