All arrive at antonyms
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A a verb arrive at
- forfeit β a fine; penalty.
- ignore β to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- surrender β to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
- misunderstand β to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
- desert β A desert is a large area of land, usually in a hot region, where there is almost no water, rain, trees, or plants.
- give in β to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- lose β to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- spend β to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- give up β the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- fail β to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- miss β to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- neglect β to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- yield β to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
- depart β When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
- leave β to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- abandon β If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
- pass by β go past
- avoid β If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
- overlook β to fail to notice, perceive, or consider: to overlook a misspelled word.
- unsettle β to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
- destroy β To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- disarrange β to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- disorganize β to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
- corrupt β Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
- aid β Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- assist β If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- confuse β If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- question β a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- wonder β to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- change β If there is a change in something, it becomes different.
- disturb β to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- unfix β to render no longer fixed; unfasten; detach; loosen; free.
- forget β to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- eat out β to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- play fair β games: be sporting
- help β to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- abstain β If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
- disbelieve β to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disperse β to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- scatter β to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
- misconceive β Fail to understand correctly.
- distribute β to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- divide β to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
- retreat β the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
- retrogress β to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
- decrease β When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- raze β to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- ruin β ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.