All defer antonyms

verb defer

• bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
• shorten — to make short or shorter.
• further — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
• carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
• facilitate — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
• hasten — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
• hurry — to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.
• continue — If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
• maintain — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
• advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
• allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
• forward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
• do — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
• 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.
• promote — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
• push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
• abbreviate — If you abbreviate something, especially a word or a piece of writing, you make it shorter.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
• forge — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
• force — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• dispute — to engage in argument or debate.
• dissent — to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree (often followed by from): Two of the justices dissented from the majority decision.
• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• protest — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
• disobey — Fail to obey (rules, a command, or someone in authority).
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• disarrange — to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
• fight — a battle or combat.
• disagree — to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.