Keeping and Violation

Keeping

Keeping noun - The following of a custom, rule, or law.
Usage example: the keeping of religious laws and traditions

Violation is an antonym for keeping.

Nearby Words: keep, keeper

Violation

Violation noun - A breaking of a moral or legal code.

Keeping is an antonym for violation.

Nearby Words: violated, violating, violator, viol

How words are described

total total keeping total violation
heavy heavy keeping heavy violation
big big keeping big violation
serious serious keeping serious violation
Other adjectives: new, major, greater, last.

Both words in one sentence

  • Kirk destroys a computer that was keeping a planet's people in a stagnant, mollycoddled existence, and argues that this isn't a Prime Directive violation because the people didn't really have their own culture at all.
  • Keeping up the track record for Compile Heart, trying to get any of the secret characters or endings in Trillion: God of Destruction requires precise events and Violation of Common Sense.
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