All lifeboat antonyms
lifeΒ·boat
L l verb lifeboat
- ostracise β to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- penalise β to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- blame β 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.
- censure β If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
- condemn β If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- convict β If someone is convicted of a crime, they are found guilty of that crime in a law court.
- damn β Damn, damn it, and dammit are used by some people to express anger or impatience.
- sentence β 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.
- accuse β If you accuse someone of doing something wrong or dishonest, you say or tell them that you believe that they did it.
- punish β to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- restrain β to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- limit β the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- impeach β to accuse (a public official) before an appropriate tribunal of misconduct in office.
- incriminate β to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
- obligate β to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- charge β If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
- hold β 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 β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- bind β 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 β When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
- prevent β to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- refuse β to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- chastise β If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.
- ostracize β to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- penalize β to subject to a penalty, as a person.
noun lifeboat
- chastisement β Chastisement is the same as punishment.
- condemnation β Condemnation is the act of saying that something or someone is very bad and unacceptable.
- penalty β a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- punishment β the act of punishing.
- conviction β a fixed or firmly held belief, opinion, etc
- damning β If you describe evidence or a report as damning, you mean that it suggests very strongly that someone is guilty of a crime or has made a serious mistake.
- ostracization β to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- incarceration β the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure: The incarceration rate has increased dramatically.
- collection β A collection of things is a group of similar things that you have deliberately acquired, usually over a period of time.
- gathering β a drawing together; contraction.
- imprisonment β to confine in or as if in a prison.
- restraint β a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- continuation β The continuation of something is the fact that it continues, rather than stopping.