Keeping
Keeping noun - Responsibility for the safety and well-being of someone or something.
Possessing and keeping are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Possessing" instead an adjective "Keeping".
Possessing
Keeping and possessing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keeping" instead an adjective "Possessing".
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Both words in one sentence
- Mawaru-Penguindrum: Two brothers must find a mystery object known as the 'Penguindrum' for an entity residing in a penguin-shaped hat that is possessing and keeping alive their Ill Girl sister, in company with small cartoonish penguins that only they can see.
Source: Widget Series -
In Jason Shiga's Demon, Hunter has a courtyard full of conjoined twins around his fortress as one of several means of keeping Jimmy from possessing his way in or Sweetpea from possessing her way out.
Source: Conjoined Twins -
She's a Psychopathic Manchild who loves possessing little girls and gradually forcing them to kill everyone they care about, all the while still keeping the demeanour of a sweet little girl.
Source: Faux Affably Evil
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