All close in antonyms
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- 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.
- liberate β to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- free β enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- let out β (of fur) processed by cutting parallel diagonal slashes into the pelt and sewing the slashed edges together to lengthen the pelt and to improve the appearance of the fur.
- disappear β to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
- hide β Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
- dissuade β to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- conceal β If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
- recede β to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
- fail β to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- 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.
- discourage β to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- reject β to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- unloose β to loosen or relax (the grasp, hold, fingers, etc.).
- face β the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- meet β greatest lower bound
- reveal β to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
- speak β to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- permit β to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- center β a point equally distant from all points on the circumference of a circle or surface of a sphere
- allow β If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
- uncover β to lay bare; disclose; reveal.
- unwrap β to remove or open the wrapping of.
- take out β the act of taking.