All get to antonyms

verb get to

• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• deaden — If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
• prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
• depress — If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
• dampen — To dampen something such as someone's enthusiasm or excitement means to make it less lively or intense.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• retreat — 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 — to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• raze — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
• demote — If someone demotes you, they give you a lower rank or a less important position than you already have, often as a punishment.
• renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
• refute — to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
• measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
• calculate — If you calculate a number or amount, you discover it from information that you already have, by using arithmetic, mathematics, or a special machine.
• fall behind — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
• untangle — to bring out of a tangled state; disentangle; unsnarl.
• bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
• untwist — to untangle
• 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.
• illustrate — to furnish (a book, magazine, etc.) with drawings, pictures, or other artwork intended for explanation, elucidation, or adornment.
• unravel — to separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.).
• create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
• 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.
• compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
• release — to lease again.
• concentrate — If you concentrate on something, or concentrate your mind on it, you give all your attention to it.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• smooth — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
• cower — If you cower, you bend forward and downwards because you are very frightened.
• shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• secrete — a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.
• nerve — one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
• steel — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
• balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
• allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
• lessen — to become less.
• recede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
• slump — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.