All make antonyms
make
M m verb make
- consume β If you consume something, you eat or drink it.
- spend β to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- estimate β Roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of.
- exclude β Deny (someone) access to or bar (someone) from a place, group, or privilege.
- end β Come or bring to a final point; finish.
- ask β If you ask someone something, you say something to them in the form of a question because you want to know the answer.
- destroy β To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- 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.
- raze β to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- dismantle β to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- demolish β To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- ignore β to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- 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.
- derange β to disturb the order or arrangement of; throw into disorder; disarrange
- disarrange β to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- disorder β lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
- disorganize β to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
- terminate β to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
- dissuade β to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- prevent β to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- demote β If someone demotes you, they give you a lower rank or a less important position than you already have, often as a punishment.
- renounce β to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- deny β When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
- disallow β to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- refuse β to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- refute β to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
- veto β the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- measure β a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- neglect β to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- give up β the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- lose β to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- fail β to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- finish β to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
- kill β to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
- divide β to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
- separate β to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- confuse β If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- crush β To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- discourage β to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- halt β to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- calculate β If you calculate a number or amount, you discover it from information that you already have, by using arithmetic, mathematics, or a special machine.
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- leave alone β separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
- take back β 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.
- pass over β to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- keep β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- cease β If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.