All designate antonyms
des·ig·nate
D d verb designate
- reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
- hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
- deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
- veto — 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.
- dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
- refute — to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
- confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- 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.