All raise antonyms

verb raise

• lighten — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
• anaesthetizing — Present participle of anaesthetize.
• commercialize — If something is commercialized, it is used or changed in such a way that it makes money or profits, often in a way that people disapprove of.
• 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).
• lessen — to become less.
• deaden — If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
• illtreat — Alternative form of ill-treat.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• ease up — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
• laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
• muddying — Cause to become covered in or full of mud.
• baled — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
• ko — a knockout in boxing.
• downsize — company: make redundancies
• intermit — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• belittle — If you belittle someone or something, you say or imply that they are unimportant or not very good.
• disparage — to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners.
• etherize — Anesthetize (a person or animal) with ether.
• gassing — an affecting, overcoming, or poisoning with gas or fumes.
• commercialise — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
• massing — a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size: a mass of dough.
• baling — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
• demolish — To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
• embog — (transitive) To bog down.
• backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
• back water — to reverse the direction of a boat, esp to push the oars of a rowing boat to slow it down or stop it
• draw in — 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).
• make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
• lull — to put to sleep or rest by soothing means: to lull a child by singing.
• miniaturise — (British) alternative spelling of miniaturize.
• bate — (of hawks) to jump violently from a perch or the falconer's fist, often hanging from the leash while struggling to escape
• cut to the quick — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
• dis — lady; woman.
• 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.
• extenuate — Make (guilt or an offense) seem less serious or more forgivable.
• give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
• mark down — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
• delimitate — delimit.
• dig out — to break up, turn over, or remove earth, sand, etc., as with a shovel, spade, bulldozer, or claw; make an excavation.
• deflate — If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
• lay low — situated, placed, or occurring not far above the ground, floor, or base: a low shelf.
• drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• level — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
• miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
• corrugate — to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
• intermitted — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• disgrade — (obsolete) To degrade.
• go to pot — a container of earthenware, metal, etc., usually round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.
• misprize — to despise; undervalue; slight; scorn.