Kept
Kept adjective - (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded.
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Synonyms for Kept
Thrown away is an antonym for kept.
Thrown away
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They can't be thrown away (it would be a gratuituous insult to the district population after all) and so they are kept in the attic.
- It was more of a matter of having the guarantee that your head would be preserved by the enemy and not thrown away, as only the heads of males were kept as kill trophies.
Source: Literature / The Hagakure -
This is Palpatine's downfall in the aptly named Shoulda Kept the Manual: having thrown away the manual containing all the Contingency Orders for the Grand Army of the Republic, Palpatine had nothing to check when he forgot what was the one to kill the Jedi and ended up issuing Order 65.
Source: Read the Freaking Manual
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