All catch up antonyms
catch up
C c verb catch up
- avoid β If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
- 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.
- distance β the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- depart β When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
- go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- leave β to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- miss β to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- go away β leave!
- release β to lease again.
- disgust β to cause loathing or nausea in.
- disenchant β to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- turn off β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- repel β to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- tire β Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), especially with a headdress.
- bore β If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
- forfeit β a fine; penalty.
- damage β To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- destroy β To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- harm β a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- injure β to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- mislay β to lose temporarily; misplace: He mislaid his keys.
- deteriorate β If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
- wane β to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
- 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.
- 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.
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- decline β If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
- free β enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.