Kept and Pressed

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Kept adjective - (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded.

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Pressed and kept are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pressed" instead an adjective "Kept".

Pressed adjective - Compacted by ironing.

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Kept and pressed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Kept" instead an adjective "Pressed".

Nearby Words: press, pressure, pressing

Rocko pressed it and became a greedy boss who kept bossing Filburt around, friendship be damned.

Source: Yet Another Christmas Carol
By confessing or denying the accusation, his land would have been forfeit, but instead he kept silent, never confirming or denying the accusations, only asking for more weight to be pressed on him, until he was crushed to death.

Source: Theatre / The Crucible
In general he goes from being a deadpan Only Sane Man in episode 1 to seemingly having his Berserk Buttons kept perpetually pressed with a paperweight.

Source: Web Video / Abridged On Titan

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