Keeping and Stop

Keeping

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

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Stop and keeping are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stop" instead a verb "Keeping".

Nearby Words: keep, keeper

Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.

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Keeping and stop are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Keeping" with "Stop", this verbs are similar.

Nearby Words: stopped, stopper, stopping, stopover

old	old keeping	old stop
good	good keeping	good stop
full	full keeping	full stop
safe	safe keeping	safe stop
Other adjectives: better, short, true, single, big, great, serious, wrong, key, major, last, giant.

But keeping it there for too long leads to a disruption of the cycles of nature — people stop dying of natural causes and the seasons stop changing, being replaced with eternal springtime.

Source: Literature / Lone Wolf
Similarly, towards the end of "Immigrant Song", Robert Plant does a false start right before keeping up with the tempo to sing "So now you'd better stop..."

Source: Four More Measures
Sherlock getting John out of a bonfire, stopping himself from being clinically dead, AND OUTRIGHT killing Magnussen, to stop the guy from blackmailing Mary and keeping both John and Mary safe.

Source: Pet The Dog / Live-Action TV

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