All let go antonyms

verb let go

• hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• button — Buttons are small hard objects sewn on to shirts, coats, or other pieces of clothing. You fasten the clothing by pushing the buttons through holes called buttonholes.
• bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• acknowledge — If you acknowledge a fact or a situation, you accept or admit that it is true or that it exists.
• agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
• tense — in a state of mental or nervous strain; high-strung; taut: a tense person.
• remain — to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
• persevere — to persist in anything undertaken; maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement; continue steadfastly.
• cherish — If you cherish something such as a hope or a pleasant memory, you keep it in your mind for a long period of time.
• assert — If someone asserts a fact or belief, they state it firmly.
• uphold — to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
• come — When a person or thing comes to a particular place, especially to a place where you are, they move there.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• continue — If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
• begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.
• start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
• 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.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• 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.
• go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
• defend — If you defend someone or something, you take action in order to protect them.
• pursue — to strive to gain; seek to attain or accomplish (an end, object, purpose, etc.).
• retain — to keep possession of.
• support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
• adopt — If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
• favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
• incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
• amplify — If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
• intensify — to make intense or more intense.
• prolong — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
• revive — to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew: to revive old feuds.
• forward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
• rise — 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.
• raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
• develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
• win — to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
• magnify — to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
• accuse — If you accuse someone of doing something wrong or dishonest, you say or tell them that you believe that they did it.
• blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
• convict — If someone is convicted of a crime, they are found guilty of that crime in a law court.
• punish — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
• sentence — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
• condemn — If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
• incriminate — to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
• incarcerate — to imprison; confine.