All cut to the quick antonyms

verb cut to the quick

• compliment — A compliment is a polite remark that you say to someone to show that you like their appearance, appreciate their qualities, or approve of what they have done.
• praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
• laud — to praise; extol.
• cherish — If you cherish something such as a hope or a pleasant memory, you keep it in your mind for a long period of time.
• preserve — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
• protect — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
• respect — a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in): to differ in some respect.
• benefit — The benefit of something is the help that you get from it or the advantage that results from it.
• prize — leverage.
• revere — to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: The child revered her mother.
• acclaim — If someone or something is acclaimed, they are praised enthusiastically.
• adulate — to flatter or praise obsequiously
• honor — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
• treasure — wealth or riches stored or accumulated, especially in the form of precious metals, money, jewels, or plate.
• flatter — to make flat.
• approve — If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
• defend — If you defend someone or something, you take action in order to protect them.
• help — 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.
• commend — If you commend someone or something, you praise them formally.
• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• overrate — to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate: I think you overrate their political influence.
• upgrade — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
• build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
• raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
• overestimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
• overvalue — to value too highly; put too high a value on: They should be careful not to overvalue the property.
• value — relative worth, merit, or importance: the value of a college education; the value of a queen in chess.
• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
• calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
• comfort — If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
• placate — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
• delight — Delight is a feeling of very great pleasure.
• assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
• quiet — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
• appease — If you try to appease someone, you try to stop them from being angry by giving them what they want.
• mollify — to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
• please — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
• relieve — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
• compose — The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
• humor — hacker humour
• satisfy — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
• release — to lease again.
• surrender — 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.
• grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
• improve — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
• lose — 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.
• yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
• boost — If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
• clarify — To clarify something means to make it easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail.