Keeping and Saving

Keeping

Keeping noun - Responsibility for the safety and well-being of someone or something.

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Saving and keeping are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Saving" instead the word "Keeping" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: keep, keeper

Saving noun - Recovery or preservation from loss or danger.

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Keeping and saving are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keeping" instead the word "Saving" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: save, saved, saver

big

big keeping

big saving

Instead of just keeping her at Hogwarts, they teach her needlessly complex spells and ship her home, so she gets her clothes ripped off before saving herself.

Source: Idiot Plot / Fan Fiction
Similarly, heroes forced into the Sadistic Choice (where one option is saving lives and another keeping their promise) may end up forced into a Frequently-Broken Unbreakable Vow.

Source: I Gave My Word
The captain tries to keep it afloat by ruthlessly throwing out those who can't survive and keeping those he feels can, making no moral judgements on who is worth saving.

Source: Abandon Ship

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