All permit antonyms

verb permit

• cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
• ease up — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
• call in — If you call someone in, you ask them to come and help you or do something for you.
• move out — an act or instance of moving; movement.
• anaesthetizing — Present participle of anaesthetize.
• contravene — To contravene a law or rule means to do something that is forbidden by the law or rule.
• deaden — If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
• discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• come to nothing — plan, idea: fail
• hold over — 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.
• make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
• bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• dooming — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
• intermit — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• counterattacking — Present participle of counterattack.
• neutralise — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• change one's mind — to alter one's decision or opinion
• close in — If a group of people close in on a person or place, they come nearer and nearer to them and gradually surround them.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• look over — the act of looking: a look of inquiry.
• call in question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
• edge in — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• banish — If someone or something is banished from a place or area of activity, they are sent away from it and prevented from entering it.
• clammed — any of various bivalve mollusks, especially certain edible species. Compare quahog, soft-shell clam.
• warn — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
• frown on — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• blackball — If the members of a club blackball someone, they vote against that person being allowed to join their club.
• girdled — a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
• ko — a knockout in boxing.
• actioned — Simple past tense and past participle of action.
• boot out — If someone boots you out of a job, organization, or place, you are forced to leave it.
• gassing — an affecting, overcoming, or poisoning with gas or fumes.
• draw away — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
• flip-flopping — Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
• hobble — to walk lamely; limp.
• etherize — Anesthetize (a person or animal) with ether.
• countercheck — a check or restraint, esp one that acts in opposition to another
• freighted — goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.
• handcuff — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
• animadvert — to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
• close up — If someone closes up a building, they shut it completely and securely, often because they are going away.
• backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
• dish it out — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
• detouring — Present participle of detour.
• dig out — to break up, turn over, or remove earth, sand, etc., as with a shovel, spade, bulldozer, or claw; make an excavation.