All let out antonyms

verb let out

• begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.
• do — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
• shorten — to make short or shorter.
• curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
• constrict — If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
• abbreviate — If you abbreviate something, especially a word or a piece of writing, you make it shorter.
• contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
• inhale — to breathe in; draw in by breathing: to inhale the polluted air.
• take in — the act of taking.
• guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
• protect — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
• shield — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
• bury — To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth.
• save — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
• narrow — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
• restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
• compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• lessen — to become less.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
• abridge — to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
• degrade — Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
• condense — If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• take back — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
• finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
• harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
• injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
• damn — Damn, damn it, and dammit are used by some people to express anger or impatience.
• 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.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• incarcerate — to imprison; confine.
• burden — If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
• compel — If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• bind — If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• smooth — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.