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How to sign: celebrate, as of holidays or rites
"Keep the commandments"; "celebrate Christmas"; "Observe Yom Kippur";
Similiar / Same: celebrate, observe
Within this category: commemorate, mourn, solemnize
How to sign: keep under control; keep in check
"suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool";
Similiar / Same: restrain, keep back, hold back, suppress
Within this category: bottle up, confine, control, hold, quench
How to sign: 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";
See also: hold back, survive, keep off, keep in, keep apart, stay off, keep out, delay, keep down, live on, sustain, stand firm, shut out, keep up, sequestrate, keep off, resist, last, hold out, exclude, set apart, arrest, prolong, withstand, keep up, hold over, shut, hold up, endure, live, isolate, detain, turn back, avoid, hold up, hold out, sequester, number, contain, stop, go, check
Similiar / Same: maintain, hold
Within this category: conserve, continue, distance, hold over, housekeep, preserve, pressurize
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: livelihood, bread and butter, sustenance, living, support
Categories: resource
Within this category: comforts, maintenance, meal ticket, subsistence
How to sign: the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
Similiar / Same: donjon, dungeon
Categories: fastness, stronghold
Within this category: Black Hole of Calcutta