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Nouns (9)

n. a game of marbles in which the players keep the marbles they have won

n. a cell in a jail or prison

support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance

n. the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"

Verbs (43)

keep

v. raise; "She keeps a few chickens in the yard"; "he keeps bees"

keep

v. hold and prevent from leaving; "The student was kept after school"

keep

v. store or keep customarily; "Where do you keep your gardening tools?"

keep

v. have as a supply; "I always keep batteries in the freezer"; "keep food for a week in the pantry"; "She keeps a sixpack and a week's worth of supplies in the refrigerator"

keep, preserve

v. maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger; "May God keep you"

keep, stay fresh

v. fail to spoil or rot; "These potatoes keep for a long time"

keep, maintain

v. maintain by writing regular records; "keep a diary"; "maintain a record"; "keep notes"

prevent, keep

v. stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles"

preserve, keep

v. prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh"

keep, maintain

v. maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"

observe, celebrate, keep

v. behave as expected during of holidays or rites; "Keep the commandments"; "celebrate Christmas"; "Observe Yom Kippur"

keep, maintain, hold

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"

restrain, keep, keep back, hold back

v. keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"

sustain, keep, maintain

v. supply with necessities and support; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn and many to keep"

observe, keep, maintain

v. stick to correctly or closely; "The pianist kept time with the metronome"; "keep count"; "I cannot keep track of all my employees"

keep, restrain, hold back, keep back

v. keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"

keep, continue, retain, keep on

v. allow to remain in a place or position; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"

keep, look after, have charge of

v. look after; be the keeper of; have charge of; "He keeps the shop when I am gone"

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Fuzzynyms (223)

board, room

v. live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house"

bunk

v. provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs"

run away

v. escape from the control of; "Industry is running away with us all"

shelter

v. invest (money) so that it is not taxable

last, endure

v. persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"

tend, be given, lean, incline, run

v. have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"

leave, leave alone, leave behind

v. leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking; "leave it as is"; "leave the young fawn alone"; "leave the flowers that you see in the park behind"

leave, depart, pull up stakes

v. remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"

save, preserve

v. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"

conserve

v. preserve with sugar; "Mom always conserved the strawberries we grew in the backyard"

interfere

v. come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle; "Your talking interferes with my work!"

ban

v. prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure; "Smoking is banned in this building"

bar

v. secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door"

pause suddenly, break off

v. prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"

straiten

v. squeeze together

forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nix

v. command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans"

smoke

v. inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?"

dry, dry out

v. remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair"

cure

v. make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"

drain

v. empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; "We drained the oil tank"

enfeeble, debilitate, drain

v. make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"

obliterate, efface

v. remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise

v. make famous forever; "This melody immortalized its composer"

deify

v. exalt to the position of a God; "the people deified their King"

exalt

v. raise in rank, character, or status; "exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser"

extend

v. prolong the time allowed for payment of; "extend the loan"

feed, give

v. give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"

support

v. support materially or financially; "he does not support his natural children"; "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"

nourish, nurture, sustain

v. provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"

provide, supply, ply, cater

v. give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"

finance

v. obtain or provide money for; "Can we finance the addition to our home?"

brandish, flourish, wave

v. move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"

give

v. proffer (a body part); "She gave her hand to her little sister"

consecrate, bless, hallow, sanctify

v. render holy by means of religious rites

ritualize, ritualise

v. make or evolve into a ritual; "The growing up of children has become ritualized in many cultures"

hold

v. take and maintain control over, often by violent means; "The dissatisfied students held the President's office for almost a week"

own, have, possess

v. have ownership or possession of; "He owns three houses in Florida"; "How many cars does she have?"

have, have got, hold

v. have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense; "She has $1,000 in the bank"; "He has got two beautiful daughters"; "She holds a Master's degree from Harvard"

compete, vie, contend

v. compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

sequester

v. requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered"

imprison

v. confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"

imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand

v. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

insist, take a firm stand

v. be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; "I must insist!"

insist, assert

v. assert to be true; "The letter asserts a free society"

labor, labour

v. undergo the efforts of childbirth

struggle

v. to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope"

endeavor, endeavour, strive

v. attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy"

push

v. sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs); "The guy hanging around the school is pushing drugs"

continue, go on, persist in, go along

v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"

tolerate

v. have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition; "The patient does not tolerate the anti-inflammatory drugs we gave him"

prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure

v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"

persevere, persist, hang in, hang on, hold on

v. be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"

assert, asseverate, maintain

v. state categorically

protect

v. shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage; "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain"

patrol, police

v. maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol

shelter

v. invest (money) so that it is not taxable

help

v. contribute to the furtherance of; "This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries"

tear

v. to separate or be separated by force; "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars"

stick

v. fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something; "stick the corner of the sheet under the mattress"

cohere

v. have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results; "the principles by which societies cohere"

support

v. support materially or financially; "he does not support his natural children"; "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"

hold, support, sustain, hold up

v. be the physical support of; carry the weight of; "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What's holding that mirror?"

travel, go, move, locomote

v. change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"

support, back up

v. give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to; "She supported him during the illness"; "Her children always backed her up"

invade, occupy

v. march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"

regenerate, renew

v. reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership"

suppress

v. reduce the incidence or severity of or stop; "suppress a yawn"; "this drug can suppress the hemorrhage"

repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce

v. put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"

control, curb, moderate, restrain, contain, hold in

v. lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger"

make

v. compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law!"; "Heat makes you sweat"

confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm

v. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"

hold, support, sustain, hold up

v. be the physical support of; carry the weight of; "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What's holding that mirror?"

uphold, maintain

v. support against an opponent; "The appellate court upheld the verdict"

maintain, defend

v. state or assert; "He maintained his innocence"

defend, support, fend for

v. argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike"

back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support

v. be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960"

provision, purvey

v. supply with provisions

board

v. provide food and lodging (for); "The old lady is boarding three men"

feed

v. feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity"

nourish, nurture, sustain

v. provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"

tolerate

v. have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition; "The patient does not tolerate the anti-inflammatory drugs we gave him"

board, room

v. live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house"

bunk

v. provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs"

run away

v. escape from the control of; "Industry is running away with us all"

provide, supply, ply, cater

v. give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"

support

v. support materially or financially; "he does not support his natural children"; "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"

give

v. proffer (a body part); "She gave her hand to her little sister"

redeem, pay off

v. pay off (loans or promissory notes)

meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil

v. fill or meet a want or need

reclaim, repossess

v. claim back

recover, recoup, recuperate

v. regain or make up for; "recuperate one's losses"

find, regain

v. come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"

take back, repossess

v. regain possession of something

board, room

v. live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house"

bunk

v. provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs"

run away

v. escape from the control of; "Industry is running away with us all"

Synonyms (5)

withhold, keep back

v. hold back; refuse to hand over or share; "The father is withholding the allowance until the son cleans his room"

shelve

v. place on a shelf; "shelve books"

avoid

v. refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"

look

v. have a certain outward or facial expression; "How does she look?"; "The child looks unhappy"; "She looked pale after the surgery"

Antonyms (28)

lose

v. fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"

check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back

v. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"

switch, shift, change

v. lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"

let, allow, permit

v. make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off"

authorize, authorise, pass, clear

v. grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"

commit, practice

v. engage in or perform; "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"

criticize, criticise

v. act as a critic; "Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either"

foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish

v. turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"

give the axe, give the bounce, give the gate

v. terminate a relationship abruptly; "Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman"

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