All overbear antonyms

verb overbear

• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
• help — 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.
• leave alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
• boost — If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
• coax — If you coax someone into doing something, you gently try to persuade them to do it.
• compliment — A compliment is a polite remark that you say to someone to show that you like their appearance, appreciate their qualities, or approve of what they have done.
• praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
• alleviate — If you alleviate pain, suffering, or an unpleasant condition, you make it less intense or severe.
• delight — Delight is a feeling of very great pleasure.
• please — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
• relieve — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
• allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
• mismanage — Manage (something) badly or wrongly.
• abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
• advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
• comply — If someone or something complies with an order or set of rules, they are in accordance with what is required or expected.
• consent — If you give your consent to something, you give someone permission to do it.
• encourage — Give support, confidence, or hope to (someone).
• follow — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
• free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
• give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• liberate — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
• lose — 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.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• obey — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
• permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
• release — to lease again.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• serve — to act as a servant.
• start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
• submit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
• surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
• yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
• contradict — If you contradict someone, you say that what they have just said is wrong, or suggest that it is wrong by saying something different.
• countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
• oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• recall — to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said?
• reverse — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
• revoke — to take back or withdraw; annul, cancel, or reverse; rescind or repeal: to revoke a decree.
• go along — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• deprecate — If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
• humble — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
• fall behind — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.