All bitting synonyms

verb bitting

• avert — If you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
• faze — to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.
• interdict — Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
• taboo — proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable: Taboo language is usually bleeped on TV. Synonyms: prohibited, banned, forbidden, proscribed. Antonyms: allowed, permitted, permissible; sanctioned.
• ward — (Aaron) Montgomery, 1843–1913, U.S. merchant and mail-order retailer.
• sandbag — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• repulse — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
• thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
• neutralize — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
• terminate — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
• obviate — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
• harness — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
• snub — to treat with disdain or contempt, especially by ignoring.
• counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
• tame — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• checkmate — to thwart or render powerless
• moderate — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
• frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• baffle — If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
• foil — to cover or back with foil.
• cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• nip in the bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
• hold down — 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.
• hold in — 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.
• keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• play for time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• rein in — control, restrain
• slow down — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
• tie up — that with which anything is tied.
• cool down — If someone cools down or if you cool them down, they become less angry than they were.
• cool off — If someone or something cools off, or if you cool them off, they become cooler after having been hot.
• send up — an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send-up of TV game shows.
• defer — If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
• forbear — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• postpone — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
• put off — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• keep out — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.