All hang fire antonyms
hang fire
H h verb hang fire
- shorten β to make short or shorter.
- further β 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 β If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
- aid β Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- assist β If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- facilitate β to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- hasten β to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- hurry β 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 β If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
- maintain β to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- advance β To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
- 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.
- forward β toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- do β Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- help β 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 β to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- push β to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- abbreviate β If you abbreviate something, especially a word or a piece of writing, you make it shorter.
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- support β to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- forge β to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
- force β physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- persevere β to persist in anything undertaken; maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement; continue steadfastly.
- complete β You use complete to emphasize that something is as great in extent, degree, or amount as it possibly can be.
- persist β to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
- accelerate β If the process or rate of something accelerates or if something accelerates it, it gets faster and faster.
- go ahead β permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
- quicken β to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- finish β to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
- go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- rush β to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
- leave β to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- abet β If one person abets another, they help or encourage them to do something criminal or wrong. Abet is often used in the legal expression 'aid and abet'.
- release β to lease again.
- clear up β When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
- clarify β To clarify something means to make it easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail.
- include β to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- add β ADD is an abbreviation for attention deficit disorder.
- open β not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- carry on β If you carry on doing something, you continue to do it.
- begin β To begin to do something means to start doing it.
- keep on β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- accept β If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.
- rise β to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- sustain β to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.