All authoring antonyms
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A a verb authoring
- arouse β If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
- distress β great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- 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.
- agitate β If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- upset β to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- disorder β lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
- deny β When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
- refuse β to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- raze β to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- dismantle β to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- ignore β to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- prevent β to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- conclude β If you conclude that something is true, you decide that it is true using the facts you know as a basis.
- finish β to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
- neglect β to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- 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.
- fail β to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- halt β to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- terminate β to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
- result β to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
- pass by β go past
- miss β to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- forget β to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- steal β to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
- shun β to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
- withhold β to hold back; restrain or check.
- disapprove β to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- confine β To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
- decrease β When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- refrain β to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- disallow β to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- veto β the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- conceal β If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
- shrivel β shrink, dry up
- hide β Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
- oppose β to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- take β to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- withdraw β to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- hold β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- keep β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- kill β to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
- fade β to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- shrink β to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
- die β When people, animals, and plants die, they stop living.
- abort β If an unborn baby is aborted, the pregnancy is ended deliberately and the baby is not born alive.
- consume β If you consume something, you eat or drink it.
- act β When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
- play β a dramatic composition or piece; drama.