keep alive
verb
Roget 143:
continue,
persist;
go on,
jog on,
keep on,
run on,
hold on;
abide,
keep,
pursue,
stick to its course,
take its course,
maintain its course;
carry on,
keep up.
sustain,
uphold,
hold up,
keep on foot;
follow up,
perpetuate;
maintain;
preserve
etc.
604.1;
harp upon
etc.
(repeat)
104.
keep going,
keep alive,
keep the pot boiling,
keep up the ball,
keep up the good work;
die in harness,
die with one's boots on;
hold on the even tenor of one's way,
pursue the even tenor of one's way.
let be;
stare super antiquas vias [Lat.];
quieta non movere [Lat.];
let things take their course;
stare decisis
(Jurisprudence).
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Roget 670:
preserve,
maintain,
keep,
sustain,
support,
hold;
keep up,
keep alive;
refrigerate,
keep on ice;
not willingly let die;
bank up;
nurse;
save,
rescue;
be safe,
make safe
etc.
664;
take care of
etc.
(care)
459;
guard
etc.
(defend)
717.
stare super antiquas vias [Lat.]
[Bacon];
hold one's own;
hold one's ground,
stand one's ground
etc.
(resist)
719.
embalm,
cure,
salt,
pickle,
season,
kyanize†,
bottle,
pot,
tin,
can;
sterilize,
pasteurize,
radiate;
dry,
lyophilize [Chem],
freeze-dry,
concentrate,
evaporate;
freeze,
quick-freeze,
deep-freeze;
husband
etc.
(store)
636.
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Roget 359:
be alive
etc.
adj.;
live,
breathe,
respire;
subsist
etc.
(exist)
1;
walk the earth,
strut and fret one's hour upon the stage"
[Macbeth];
be spared.
see the light,
be born,
come into the world,
fetch breath,
draw breath,
fetch the breath of life,
draw the breath of life;
quicken;
revive;
come to life.
give birth to
etc.
(produce)
161;
bring to life,
put into life,
vitalize;
vivify,
vivificate†;
reanimate
etc.
(restore)
660;
keep alive,
keep body and soul together,
keep the wolf from the door;
support life.
hive nine lives like a cat.
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Moby thesaurus: be spared, cheat death, conserve, copyright, embalm, endure, eternalize, eternize, extend, freeze, guard, hang on, hold, immortalize, keep, keep fresh, keep going, keep intact, keep inviolate, keep safe, keep up, last, lengthen, maintain, monumentalize, not destroy, not endanger, not expend, not use up, not waste, patent, perennialize, perpetuate, persist, preserve, preserve from oblivion, prolong, protect, protract, register, retain, save, spare, support, support life, survive, sustain, uphold ... show more.
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