Keep and Usurp

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

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Usurp is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Usurp verb - To take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right.

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Keep is an antonym for usurp in take over topic.

Nearby Words: usurpation, usurper, usurping

power	keep power	usurp power
man	keep man	usurp man
job	keep job	usurp job
body	keep body	usurp body
Other words: family, name, control, company, house, information, hair, powers.

The Gerhardts are trying to keep their territory while Kansas City is trying to usurp it from them.

Source: Mob War
Left Hand, done by Palpatine to keep his subordinates fighting amongst themselves and never powerful enough to usurp him, which is exactly how Nazi Germany operated.

Source: Literature / Star Wars: Tarkin
Falcone in Gotham knows Mooney wants to usurp his place as the crimelord of Gotham but continues to keep her as his go-to gal and even had a civil conversation with her as his men beat Mooney's lover behind them.

Source: Keeping the Enemy Close

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