Keep and Withdrawing

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

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Withdrawing is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

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Keep is an antonym for withdrawing.

Nearby Words: withdraw, withdrawn, withdrawal, withdrawable

He hopes that eventually he'll be able to change Foul's nature, but ends up withdrawing from the world in order to keep Foul from finding a way to hurt the people around him for the meantime.

Source: Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can aka: Sealed In A Person Shaped Can
Can even the crew of the Enterprise keep Vulcan from withdrawing?

Source: Literature / Spock's World
But the titular deserter would rather stay and keep his home planet (where his family lives) from fragmenting and balkanizing in the wake of the Empire withdrawing all their troops, so he fakes his own death, with the protagonist's reluctant complicity.

Source: The Strategist

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