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Retain

/rɪˈteɪn/

To keep something in one's possession or continue to have something.

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Throughout all she retained her grip on the revolver.

And that freshness can only be retained with youth.

Stumpy was retained.

The word retain comes from the Latin retinere, from re- meaning back + tenere meaning to hold. First appeared in Middle English.

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