All hold in antonyms
hold in
H h verb hold in
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- confide β If you confide in someone, you tell them a secret.
- reveal β to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
- tell β to give an account or narrative of; narrate; relate (a story, tale, etc.): to tell the story of Lincoln's childhood.
- 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.
- 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'.
- permit β to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- release β to lease again.
- include β to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- welcome β a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- facilitate β to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- liberate β to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- 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.
- 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.
- continue β If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
- support β to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- forward β toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- 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.
- approve β If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
- advance β To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
- free β enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- indulge β to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
- disperse β to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- scatter β to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
- annoy β If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- incite β to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- worry β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- distress β great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- intensify β to make intense or more intense.
- worsen β Make or become worse.
- disorganize β to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
- increase β to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- vex β to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- destroy β To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- disarrange β to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- ruin β ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- anger β Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
- arouse β If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
- aggravate β If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
- irritate β to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- provoke β to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- trouble β to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- upset β to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- agitate β If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- disturb β to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- move β to pass from one place or position to another.
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- confuse β If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- loosen β to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.