All promote antonyms

verb promote

• cumber — to obstruct or hinder
• disciplining — Present participle of discipline.
• 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.
• weighted — having additional weight.
• dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
• leave out — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• encumber — Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
• denunciating — present participle of denunciate.
• ferruled — Having a ferrule.
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• duelling — a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
• close down — to cease or cause to cease operations
• downs — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• dissed — to show disrespect for; affront.
• intermit — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
• cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
• nixing — nothing.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• 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.
• dooming — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
• 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.
• edge in — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
• frown on — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• boot out — If someone boots you out of a job, organization, or place, you are forced to leave it.
• hobble — to walk lamely; limp.
• 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.
• dish it out — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
• kinked — Bent or twisted into a tight curl.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• intermitted — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• 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.
• marginalize — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
• co-oped — a cooperative store, dwelling, program, etc.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• weighting — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
• bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
• go against — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• dis — lady; woman.
• disgrade — (obsolete) To degrade.
• bollix — to make a muddle of; bungle; botch
• chivy — to harass or nag
• dis-favored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
• cool down — If someone cools down or if you cool them down, they become less angry than they were.
• cut to the quick — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
• mark down — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.