Keep from and Return

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Keep from verb - To resist the temptation of.

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

Return verb - To bring, send, or put back to a former or proper place.

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Keep from and return are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep from" instead a verb "Return".

Nearby Words: returned, returning, returnable, returnee, returner

In return, those rulers did everything they could to keep from antagonizing Rome.

Source: Useful Notes / The Roman Empire
Forcing Gold to cast Milah into the River of Lost Souls to keep from being killed and/or ever able to return to Belle.

Source: Moral Event Horizon / Once Upon a Time
Return of the Living Dead 3 featured the heroine finding new and interesting ways to cause physical pain to keep from succumbing to her desire to eat folk.

Source: Vampire Refugee

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