What are the opposite words for advance?
Advance usually refers to progressing forwards or making progress. Its antonyms include "retreat," "backtrack," "recede," "regress," "move backward," and "fall back." These words imply a movement in the opposite direction or a reversal of progress. Other antonyms of advance include "delay," "postpone," "wait," "halt," and "stop," where movement is completely halted or delayed. Advance is also often used to mean "improve" or "develop," and its antonyms for this definition include "decline," "deteriorate," "weaken," "deterioration" and "downfall." Understanding these antonyms can help to provide a clear understanding of the opposite of progress in various context.
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- abandon
- abide
- end
- motion
- back
- give
- command
- recede
- hinder
- hesitate
- prohibit
- defeat
- interrupt
- neglect
- die
- stop
- slow
- procrastinate
- disappear
- tie
- withdraw
- resist
- adjourn
- back down
- back off
- backtrack
- bar
- block
- bog down
- charge
- check
- choke
- curb
- deaden
- decline
- drag
- dwell
- encumber
- fall back
- forbid
- halt
- hamper
- handicap
- lade
- live in
- mull
- obstruct
- occlude
- pull out
- quit
- secede
- set back
- shelve
- stay
- still
- stymie
- surcease
- temporize
- thwart
- trail
- traverse
- wait
- abate
- arrest
- balk
- brake
- dawdle
- defer
- delay
- detain
- dilly-dally
- dip
- discourage
- ebb
- fall
- immobilize
- impede
- inhibit
- interfere
- lag
- linger
- lodge
- loiter
- pigeonhole
- poke
- postpone
- preclude
- prevent
- prolong
- protract
- relent
- remit
- retard
- retire
- retract
- retreat
- reverse
- stall
- stand
- suspend
- tarry
- waive
- leave behind, relinquish
- lessen, grow or cause to grow less
- stop temporarily and wait for
- superannuate
- deter
- stop a proceeding
- move something forward, often quickly
- give money beforehand
- promote or propose an idea
- increase in amount, number, or position
- backpedal
- belay
- stick; become stuck
- check; stop
- hinder, restrain
- smother, block
- rule, have power
- move very slowly
- repress, restrict
- dawdle, delay
- hold back; block
- diminish, muffle, quiet
- lessen, become less
- conquer in military manner
- hold off, put off
- hold, keep back; arrest
- check, inhibit from action
- wither, dwindle
- waste time
- lower, descend
- vanish; cease
- deter, dissuade; restrain
- bring to an end
- think about seriously
- descend; become lower
- shy away, wince
- outlaw, prohibit an action
- yield, collapse
- stop, cause to stop
- impede, restrict
- give disadvantage
- wait; be uncertain
- prevent, slow down
- obstruct, hinder
- restrict, prevent
- meddle, intervene
- bother, interfere
- move slowly; delay
- loiter, delay
- stay at temporary residence
- hang around; stroll
- fail to do; forget
- prevent, restrict
- categorize; shelve
- move along slowly
- put off till later time
- inhibit; make impossible
- keep from happening or continuing
- delay, put off doing
- make impossible; stop
- extend, draw out
- die down; let up
- stop, postpone
- withstand, oppose
- hinder, obstruct
- leave a place or responsibility
- take back; renege on
- turn upside down or backwards
- pull away; split from
- defer, postpone
- recoil, shy away
- delay, restrict
- travel briefly; visit
- sojourn
- be in force, exist
- make quiet, motionless, calm
- frustrate, hinder
- delay, hold off
- gain or make time
- lag behind, follow
- resist, contradict
- pause, rest
- give up; let go
- remove something or someone from situation
- cessation
- departure
- avoidance
- ending
- regression
- hindrance
- rest
- restraint
- disappointment
- inactivity
- recession
- deadlock
- deferment
- discouragement
- frustration
- pause
- problem
- tie-up
- filibuster
- postponement
- respite
- retrogression
- setback
- standstill
- stoppage
- forward movement
- improvement, progress in development
- slowing or stopping
- advance
- deferment/deferral
- stumbling block
- deferment, interruption
- regression; decline
- obstruction of progress, especially in verbal argument
- disappointment, thwarting
- obstruction, difficulty
- wait, delay
- reversal of action; reduction of business activity
- pause, suspension in activity
- end, halt; impediment
- halt, curtailment
- ahead in position or time
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
-
abandon
- leg it,
- fly the coop,
- letting go,
- lets go,
- kiss goodbye,
- run out on,
- ship out,
- running out on,
- de sert,
- de-sert,
- dis card,
- dis carded,
- dis carding,
- dis cards,
- dis continue,
- dis continued,
- dis continues,
- dis continuing,
- dis-card,
- dis-carded,
- dis-carding,
- dis-cards,
- dis-continue,
- dis-continued,
- dis-continues,
- dis-continuing,
- flaked out,
- flakes out,
- flaking out,
- flew coop,
- flew the coop,
- flies coop,
- flies the coop,
- fly coop,
- flying coop,
- flying the coop,
- gave ship,
- gave the ship,
- gave up ship,
- give ship,
- give the ship,
- give up ship,
- give up the ship,
- gives ship,
- gives the ship,
- gives up ship,
- gives up the ship,
- giving ship,
- giving the ship,
- giving up ship,
- giving up the ship,
- kissed goodbye,
- kisses goodbye,
- kissing goodbye,
- legged it,
- legging it,
- legs it,
- letted go,
- ran out on,
- shipped out,
- shipping out,
- ships out,
- stormed out,
- storming out,
- storms out,
- sur rendered,
- sur rendering,
- sur renders,
- sur-render,
- sur-rendered,
- sur-rendering,
- sur-renders,
- take a walk,
- take powder,
- take walk,
- takes a powder,
- takes a walk,
- takes powder,
- takes walk,
- taking a powder,
- taking a walk,
- taking powder,
- taking walk,
- took a walk,
- took powder,
- washed hands of.
- abide
-
end
- pull the plug,
- switch off,
- Ultimated,
- Ultimating,
- call it a day,
- sew up,
- pack in,
- pack it in,
- sewed up,
- put the lid on,
- get done,
- call a day,
- call day,
- call it day,
- called a day,
- called day,
- called it a day,
- called it day,
- calling a day,
- calling day,
- calling it a day,
- calling it day,
- calls a day,
- calls day,
- calls it a day,
- calls it day,
- gat done,
- gets done,
- getting done,
- gotten done,
- packed in,
- packing in,
- packing it in,
- packs in,
- packs it in,
- pull plug,
- pulled plug,
- pulled the plug,
- pulling plug,
- pulling the plug,
- pulls plug,
- pulls the plug,
- put lid on,
- puts the lid on,
- putting lid on,
- re solve,
- re solves,
- re-solve,
- re-solved,
- re-solves,
- re-solving,
- sews up,
- switched off,
- switches off,
- switching off,
- topped off,
- topping off,
- tops off,
- ultimates.
- motion
-
back
- drive back,
- fall back,
- stick by,
- Allying,
- Repulsing,
- side with,
- stand behind,
- stick up for,
- give a leg up,
- angeled,
- angeling,
- drave back,
- drives back,
- driving back,
- drove back,
- gave a boost,
- gave a leg up,
- gave a lift,
- gave boost,
- gave leg up,
- gave lift,
- give a boost,
- give boost,
- give leg up,
- give lift,
- gives a boost,
- gives a leg up,
- gives a lift,
- gives boost,
- gives lift,
- giving a boost,
- giving a leg up,
- giving a lift,
- giving boost,
- giving leg up,
- giving lift,
- go bat for,
- re pulse,
- re pulsed,
- re pulses,
- re pulsing,
- re-pulse,
- re-pulsed,
- re-pulses,
- re-pulsing,
- re-tires,
- sided with,
- sides with,
- siding with,
- stands behind,
- stick for,
- sticked for,
- sticked up for,
- sticking by,
- sticking up for,
- sticks by,
- sticks for,
- sticks up for,
- stood behind,
- stuck by,
- stuck up for,
- under write,
- under writes,
- under writing,
- under written,
- under wrote,
- under-write,
- under-writes,
- under-writing,
- under-written,
- under-wrote,
- up held,
- up hold,
- up holding,
- up holds,
- up-held,
- up-hold,
- up-holding,
- up-holds.
- give
-
command
- overbear,
- take over,
- taking over,
- hold office,
- preside over,
- reign over,
- overborne,
- Over-bearing,
- co ached,
- co aching,
- co-ached,
- co-aching,
- ex act,
- ex acting,
- ex acts,
- ex-act,
- ex-acted,
- ex-acting,
- exercised power,
- exercising power,
- had authority,
- haddest authority,
- hadst authority,
- hast authority,
- have authority,
- having authority,
- held office,
- holding office,
- holds office,
- over bear,
- over bearing,
- over bears,
- over bore,
- over born,
- over-bear,
- over-bears,
- over-bore,
- over-born,
- over-borne,
- overbears,
- overbore,
- overborn,
- pre dominate,
- pre dominated,
- pre dominates,
- pre dominating,
- pre scribe,
- pre scribing,
- pre vail,
- pre vailed,
- pre vailing,
- pre vails,
- pre-dominate,
- pre-dominated,
- pre-dominates,
- pre-dominating,
- pre-scribe,
- pre-scribed,
- pre-scribes,
- pre-scribing,
- pre-vail,
- pre-vailed,
- pre-vails,
- presided over,
- presides over,
- reigned over,
- reigning over,
- reigns over,
- super intend,
- super intended,
- super intending,
- super intends,
- super vise,
- super vised,
- super vising,
- super-intend,
- super-intended,
- super-intending,
- super-intends,
- super-vise,
- super-vised,
- takes over,
- took over.
- recede
- hinder
-
hesitate
- dithering,
- think about,
- think twice,
- thought about,
- thinking about,
- thinks about,
- shy away,
- be reluctant,
- be irresolute,
- am irresolute,
- am reluctant,
- am unwilling,
- be unwilling,
- are irresolute,
- are reluctant,
- are unwilling,
- art irresolute,
- art reluctant,
- art unwilling,
- being irresolute,
- being reluctant,
- being unwilling,
- blow hot cold,
- de bate,
- de bated,
- de bates,
- de bating,
- de-bate,
- de-bated,
- de-bates,
- de-bating,
- dithered,
- is reluctant,
- is unwilling,
- sat fence,
- sat on fence,
- shied away,
- shies away,
- sit fence,
- sit on fence,
- sits fence,
- sitting fence,
- sitting on fence,
- thinking twice,
- thinks twice,
- thought twice,
- was irresolute,
- was reluctant,
- was unwilling,
- wast irresolute,
- wast reluctant,
- wast unwilling,
- were irresolute,
- were reluctant,
- were unwilling,
- wert irresolute,
- wert reluctant,
- wert unwilling.
-
prohibit
- bar,
- pass on,
- passed on,
- passes on,
- passing on,
- zinged,
- gridlocked,
- gridlocking,
- jam up,
- jamming up,
- jams up,
- put a lock on,
- put chill on,
- put lock on,
- put stopper in,
- puts a lock on,
- puts a stopper in,
- puts half nelson on,
- puts lock on,
- puts stopper in,
- putting a lock on,
- putting half nelson on,
- putting lock on,
- putting stopper in.
-
defeat
- finish off,
- mow down,
- torpedo,
- Shipwrecking,
- Torpedoes,
- Trashed,
- mowed down,
- mows down,
- mowing down,
- shipwrecks,
- torpedoing,
- roll back,
- prevail over,
- torpedoed,
- over-run,
- be sting,
- be-sting,
- de feat,
- de feats,
- de-feat,
- de-feats,
- dis comfit,
- dis comfits,
- dis-comfit,
- dis-comfits,
- finished off,
- finishes off,
- finishing off,
- out flank,
- out flanked,
- out maneuver,
- out maneuvered,
- out maneuvering,
- out-flank,
- out-flanked,
- out-flanking,
- out-flanks,
- out-maneuver,
- out-maneuvers,
- over running,
- over runs,
- over throw,
- over throwing,
- over thrown,
- over throws,
- over whelm,
- over whelmed,
- over whelming,
- over whelms,
- over-runs,
- over-throw,
- over-throwing,
- over-thrown,
- over-throws,
- over-whelm,
- over-whelmed,
- over-whelming,
- over-whelms,
- prevailed over,
- prevailing over,
- prevails over,
- rolled back,
- rolling back,
- rolls back,
- sub jugate,
- sur mount,
- sur mounted,
- sur mounting,
- sur mounts,
- sur-mount,
- sur-mounted,
- sur-mounting,
- sur-mounts,
- up set,
- up sets,
- up setting,
- up-set,
- up-sets,
- up-setting.
-
interrupt
- chime in,
- edge in,
- lay aside,
- put in,
- shortstop,
- Inned,
- INS,
- work in,
- brake train of thought,
- brake train thought,
- break train of thought,
- break train thought,
- breaking train of thought,
- breaking train thought,
- breaks train of thought,
- breaks train thought,
- broke train of thought,
- broke train thought,
- bust in,
- busted in,
- busting in,
- busts in,
- chimed in,
- chimes in,
- chiming in,
- crowd in,
- crowded in,
- crowding in,
- crowds in,
- cut in on,
- cut on,
- cuts in on,
- cuts on,
- cutting in on,
- cutting on,
- dis connect,
- dis connected,
- dis connecting,
- dis connects,
- dis join,
- dis joined,
- dis joining,
- dis joins,
- dis unite,
- dis united,
- dis unites,
- dis uniting,
- dis-connect,
- dis-connected,
- dis-connecting,
- dis-connects,
- dis-join,
- dis-joined,
- dis-joining,
- dis-joins,
- dis-unite,
- dis-united,
- dis-unites,
- dis-uniting,
- edged in,
- edges in,
- in fringe,
- in fringed,
- in fringes,
- in sinuate,
- in sinuated,
- in sinuates,
- in sinuating,
- in-fringe,
- in-fringed,
- in-fringes,
- in-sinuate,
- in-sinuates,
- in-sinuating,
- laid aside,
- laying aside,
- puts in,
- putting in,
- shortstopped,
- shortstops,
- worked in,
- working in,
- works in,
- wrought in.
-
neglect
- gloss over,
- overleap,
- By-pass,
- Overpassed,
- Overpassing,
- by-passes,
- overleaps,
- overleapt,
- overleaped,
- be remiss,
- glossed over,
- lost sight of,
- be careless,
- lose sight of,
- am careless,
- am derelict,
- am irresponsible,
- am negligent,
- am remiss,
- are careless,
- are derelict,
- are irresponsible,
- are remiss,
- art careless,
- art derelict,
- art irresponsible,
- art negligent,
- art remiss,
- be derelict,
- be irresponsible,
- be negligent,
- being careless,
- being derelict,
- being irresponsible,
- being negligent,
- being remiss,
- by pass,
- by passed,
- by passes,
- by passing,
- by-passed,
- by-passing,
- dis missed,
- dis missing,
- dis regard,
- dis regarded,
- dis regarding,
- dis regards,
- dis-missed,
- dis-missing,
- dis-regard,
- dis-regarded,
- dis-regarding,
- dis-regards,
- glosses over,
- is derelict,
- is irresponsible,
- is negligent,
- is remiss,
- let pass,
- let slide,
- lets pass,
- letted slide,
- letting pass,
- letting slide,
- look other way,
- looked other way,
- looked the other way,
- looking other way,
- looking the other way,
- looks the other way,
- loses sight of,
- losing sight of,
- not trouble oneself,
- over leap,
- over leaping,
- over leaps,
- over look,
- over looked,
- over looks,
- over pass,
- over passed,
- over passes,
- over passing,
- over-leap,
- over-leaped,
- over-leaping,
- over-leapt,
- over-look,
- over-looking,
- over-looks,
- over-pass,
- over-passed,
- over-passes,
- over-passing,
- overleaping,
- overpast,
- think little of,
- thinking little of,
- thought little of,
- was careless,
- was derelict,
- was irresponsible,
- was negligent,
- was remiss,
- wast careless,
- wast irresponsible,
- wast negligent,
- wast remiss,
- were careless,
- were derelict,
- were negligent,
- were remiss,
- wert careless,
- wert derelict,
- wert negligent,
- wert remiss.
-
die
- break down,
- dilapidate,
- ease off,
- fade away,
- fade out,
- fizzle out,
- go bad,
- run low,
- wearing away,
- Dilapidating,
- dilapidates,
- melt away,
- running low,
- breaking down,
- brake down,
- breaks down,
- broke down,
- eased off,
- eases off,
- easing off,
- ex pire,
- ex-pire,
- faded out,
- fades out,
- fading out,
- fizzled out,
- fizzles out,
- fizzling out,
- goes bad,
- going bad,
- loses power,
- losing power,
- lost power,
- melted away,
- melting away,
- melts away,
- ran low,
- went bad.
-
stop
- belay,
- sign off,
- Bottled,
- Bottling,
- blow off,
- staunched,
- am over,
- are over,
- art over,
- be over,
- being over,
- blew off,
- blowing off,
- blows off,
- came a standstill,
- came standstill,
- came to a standstill,
- came to standstill,
- come a standstill,
- come standstill,
- come to a standstill,
- come to standstill,
- comes a standstill,
- comes standstill,
- comes to a standstill,
- comes to standstill,
- coming a standstill,
- coming standstill,
- coming to a standstill,
- coming to standstill,
- hang it up,
- hanged it up,
- hanging it up,
- hangs it up,
- hung it up,
- is over,
- quit cold,
- quits cold,
- quitted cold,
- quitting cold,
- ran its course,
- run its course,
- running its course,
- runs its course,
- signed off,
- signing off,
- signs off,
- staunches,
- staunching,
- was over,
- wast over,
- were over,
- wert over,
- standstill,
- brick wall,
- blank wall,
- blank walls,
- brick walls,
- screeching halt,
- screeching halts.
-
slow
- backwater,
- Reefed,
- Reefing,
- wind down,
- Back-water,
- anchored it,
- anchoring it,
- anchors it,
- back water,
- back watered,
- back watering,
- back waters,
- back-watered,
- back-watering,
- back-waters,
- backwatered,
- backwatering,
- backwaters,
- hit brakes,
- hit the brakes,
- hits brakes,
- hits the brakes,
- hitting brakes,
- hitting the brakes,
- keep waiting,
- keeping waiting,
- keeps waiting,
- kept waiting,
- let down flaps,
- lets down flaps,
- letted down flaps,
- letting down flaps,
- lose speed,
- lose steam,
- loses speed,
- loses steam,
- losing speed,
- losing steam,
- lost speed,
- lost steam,
- winded down,
- winding down,
- winds down,
- wound down.
-
procrastinate
- shillyshally,
- Hesitated,
- play for time,
- gave run around,
- gave the run around,
- give run around,
- give the run around,
- gives run around,
- gives the run around,
- giving run around,
- giving the run around,
- lets slide,
- play a waiting game,
- play waiting game,
- played a waiting game,
- played for time,
- played waiting game,
- playing a waiting game,
- playing waiting game,
- plays a waiting game,
- plays for time,
- plays waiting game,
- shilly shally.
-
disappear
- dematerialize,
- die out,
- take flight,
- Evanish,
- OUTS,
- dematerializing,
- dematerialized,
- dematerializes,
- outed,
- be gone,
- be no more,
- be swallowed up,
- cease to exist,
- come to naught,
- drop out of sight,
- end gradually,
- leave no trace,
- be lost,
- am done for,
- am gone,
- am lost,
- am no more,
- am swallowed up,
- are done for,
- are gone,
- are swallowed up,
- art gone,
- art lost,
- art no more,
- art swallowed up,
- be done for,
- being done for,
- being gone,
- being lost,
- being no more,
- being swallowed up,
- came naught,
- came to naught,
- cease exist,
- ceased exist,
- ceased to exist,
- ceases exist,
- ceases to exist,
- ceasing exist,
- ceasing to exist,
- come naught,
- comes naught,
- comes to naught,
- coming naught,
- coming to naught,
- de camp,
- de camped,
- de camping,
- de camps,
- de materialize,
- de materialized,
- de materializes,
- de materializing,
- de part,
- de parted,
- de parting,
- de parts,
- de-camp,
- de-camped,
- de-camping,
- de-camps,
- de-materialize,
- de-materialized,
- de-materializes,
- de-materializing,
- de-part,
- de-parted,
- de-parting,
- de-parts,
- died out,
- dieing out,
- dies out,
- dis appear,
- dis appeared,
- dis appearing,
- dis appears,
- dis perse,
- dis solve,
- dis solved,
- dis solves,
- dis solving,
- dis-appear,
- dis-appeared,
- dis-appearing,
- dis-appears,
- dis-perse,
- dis-solve,
- dis-solved,
- dis-solves,
- dis-solving,
- drop out sight,
- dropped out of sight,
- dropped out sight,
- dropping out of sight,
- dropping out sight,
- drops out of sight,
- drops out sight,
- dropt out of sight,
- dropt out sight,
- dying out,
- ending gradually,
- ends gradually,
- evanished,
- evanishes,
- go south,
- goes south,
- going south,
- is done for,
- is gone,
- is lost,
- is no more,
- leaved no trace,
- left no trace,
- takes flight,
- taking flight,
- was done for,
- was gone,
- was lost,
- wast done for,
- wast gone,
- wast no more,
- wast swallowed up,
- went south,
- were done for,
- were gone,
- were lost,
- were no more,
- were swallowed up,
- wert done for,
- wert gone,
- wert lost,
- wert swallowed up.
- tie
-
withdraw
- draw away,
- Withdrew,
- take away,
- unsaying,
- ease out,
- take a hike,
- get lost,
- de tach,
- de taches,
- de-tach,
- de-taches,
- drawing away,
- draws away,
- drew away,
- eased out,
- eases out,
- easing out,
- ex filtrate,
- ex filtrated,
- ex filtrates,
- ex filtrating,
- ex tract,
- ex-filtrate,
- ex-filtrated,
- ex-filtrating,
- ex-tract,
- ex-tracts,
- exfiltrate,
- exfiltrated,
- exfiltrating,
- gat lost,
- gets lost,
- got lost,
- gotten lost,
- in validate,
- in validated,
- in validates,
- in validating,
- in-validate,
- in-validated,
- in-validates,
- in-validating,
- made oneself scarce,
- made scarce,
- make scarce,
- makes oneself scarce,
- makes scarce,
- making scarce,
- re nig,
- re nigged,
- re nigging,
- re nigs,
- re-nig,
- re-nigged,
- re-nigging,
- re-nigs,
- renig,
- renigged,
- renigging,
- renigs,
- take hike,
- takes a hike,
- takes away,
- takes hike,
- takes leave,
- taking a hike,
- taking away,
- taking hike,
- taking leave,
- took a hike,
- took away,
- took hike,
- took leave,
- un saying,
- un says,
- un-says,
- with draw,
- with drawing,
- with drawn,
- with draws,
- with drew,
- with-draw,
- with-drawing,
- with-drawn,
- with-draws,
- with-drew.
-
resist
- harding,
- leave alone,
- remain firm,
- Dueling,
- Hards,
- dueled,
- keep from,
- stand up to,
- duelling,
- abstain from,
- abstained from,
- abstaining from,
- abstains from,
- counter vail,
- counter vailed,
- counter vailing,
- counter vails,
- counter-vail,
- counter-vailed,
- counter-vailing,
- counter-vails,
- die hard,
- died hard,
- dieing hard,
- dies hard,
- duelled,
- dying hard,
- hold out against,
- holding out against,
- holds out against,
- keeps from,
- kept from,
- leaved alone,
- leaves alone,
- leaving alone,
- left alone,
- put a fight,
- put up a fight,
- put up fight,
- puts fight,
- puts up a fight,
- puts up fight,
- putting a fight,
- putting fight,
- remaining firm,
- remains firm,
- stand to,
- standing to,
- standing up to,
- stands to,
- stands up to,
- stood to,
- stood up to,
- struggle against,
- struggled against,
- struggles against,
- struggling against.
- adjourn
-
back down
- beg off,
- cave in,
- give up,
- pull back,
- Re sign,
- caving in,
- pulling back,
- back pedal,
- begged off,
- begging off,
- begs off,
- caved in,
- caves in,
- gave ground,
- give ground,
- gives ground,
- giving ground,
- had no fight left,
- haddest no fight left,
- hadst no fight left,
- has no fight left,
- hast no fight left,
- hath no fight left,
- have no fight left,
- having no fight left,
- pulled back,
- re canting,
- re coiled,
- re coiling,
- re signed,
- re signing,
- re signs,
- re-canted,
- re-canting,
- re-coiled,
- re-coiling,
- re-signed,
- re-signs,
- wimp out,
- wimped out,
- wimping out,
- wimps out,
- withdraw from agreement or statement,
- withdraw from agreement statement,
- withdrawing from agreement or statement,
- withdrawing from agreement statement,
- withdraws from agreement or statement,
- withdraws from agreement statement,
- withdrew from agreement or statement,
- withdrew from agreement statement.
- back off
- backtrack
-
bar
- keep out,
- kept out,
- over-ride,
- de bar,
- de barred,
- de barring,
- de bars,
- de-bar,
- de-barred,
- de-barring,
- de-bars,
- dis allow,
- dis allowed,
- dis allowing,
- dis allows,
- dis countenance,
- dis countenanced,
- dis countenances,
- dis countenancing,
- dis-allow,
- dis-allowed,
- dis-allowing,
- dis-allows,
- dis-countenance,
- dis-countenanced,
- dis-countenances,
- dis-countenancing,
- ex cept,
- ex-cept,
- freeze out,
- freezes out,
- freezing out,
- inter dict,
- inter-dict,
- keeping out,
- keeps out,
- out lawed,
- out lawing,
- out-lawed,
- over ridden,
- over ride,
- over rides,
- over riding,
- over rode,
- over-ridden,
- over-rides,
- over-riding,
- over-rode,
- re fuse,
- re fused,
- re fuses,
- re fusing,
- re-fuse,
- re-fused.
-
block
- blockaded,
- blockading,
- close off,
- closing off,
- stop up,
- stoppered,
- hang up,
- Stoppering,
- interfere with,
- interfering with,
- interfered with,
- closed off,
- closes off,
- hanged up,
- hanging up,
- inter cept,
- inter-cept,
- interferes with,
- stopped up,
- stopping up,
- stops up,
- stopt up,
- take out of play,
- takes out of play,
- takes out play,
- taking out of play,
- taking out play,
- took out of play,
- took out play.
- bog down
-
charge
- lade.
-
check
- hold in,
- rein in,
- Bitted,
- Bitting,
- bottlenecked,
- bottlenecking,
- kept back,
- held down,
- held in,
- reined in,
- keeping back,
- holding down,
- hold down,
- holding in,
- holds down,
- holds in,
- keeps back,
- nip bud,
- nip in bud,
- nip the bud,
- playing for time,
- re buff,
- re buffed,
- re buffing,
- re buffs,
- re press,
- re pressed,
- re presses,
- re pressing,
- re-buffed,
- re-buffing,
- re-buffs,
- re-presses,
- re-pressing,
- reining in,
- reins in,
- slacken pace,
- slackened pace,
- slackening pace,
- slackens pace,
- with held,
- with hold,
- with holding,
- with holds,
- with-held,
- with-hold,
- with-holds.
- choke
-
curb
- box in,
- cool down,
- cool off,
- iced,
- Entrammel,
- Manacled,
- Manacling,
- hogtie,
- send up,
- sent up,
- boxed in,
- boxes in,
- boxing in,
- bring screeching halt,
- bring to screeching halt,
- bringing screeching halt,
- bringing to screeching halt,
- brings screeching halt,
- brings to screeching halt,
- brought screeching halt,
- brought to screeching halt,
- co oked,
- co oking,
- co-oked,
- co-oking,
- cooled down,
- cooled off,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- cools down,
- cools off,
- entrammeled,
- entrammeling,
- entrammels,
- hog tie,
- keep lid on,
- keep tight rein on,
- keeping lid on,
- keeps tight rein on,
- kept lid on,
- kept tight rein on,
- sending up,
- sends up.
-
deaden
- anesthetize,
- anesthetized,
- etherize,
- gassing,
- ko'd,
- kos,
- put to sleep,
- Chloroformed,
- Chloroforming,
- Damped,
- Damping,
- Etherized,
- Etherizing,
- Gassed,
- anesthetizes,
- anesthetizing,
- puts to sleep,
- putting to sleep,
- DAMPS,
- be numb,
- be numbed,
- be numbing,
- be numbs,
- be-numb,
- be-numbed,
- be-numbing,
- be-numbs,
- de aden,
- de adens,
- de press,
- de pressed,
- de presses,
- de pressing,
- de sensitize,
- de sensitized,
- de sensitizes,
- de sensitizing,
- de stroy,
- de stroyed,
- de stroying,
- de stroys,
- de vitalize,
- de vitalized,
- de vitalizes,
- de vitalizing,
- de-aden,
- de-adens,
- de-press,
- de-pressed,
- de-presses,
- de-pressing,
- de-sensitize,
- de-sensitized,
- de-sensitizes,
- de-sensitizing,
- de-stroy,
- de-stroyed,
- de-stroying,
- de-stroys,
- de-vitalize,
- de-vitalized,
- de-vitalizes,
- de-vitalizing,
- in capacitate,
- in capacitated,
- in capacitates,
- in capacitating,
- in-capacitate,
- in-capacitated,
- in-capacitating,
- ko'ing,
- koing,
- put out order,
- put sleep,
- puts out of order,
- puts out order,
- puts sleep,
- putting out of order,
- putting out order,
- un nerve,
- un nerved,
- un nerves,
- un nerving,
- un-nerve,
- un-nerving.
-
decline
- Disimprove,
- Retrograded,
- Retrograding,
- Re-turn,
- go to pot,
- went downhill,
- goes downhill,
- go downhill,
- going downhill,
- retrogrades,
- going to pot,
- de cay,
- de cays,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de generate,
- de generated,
- de generates,
- de generating,
- de-cay,
- de-cays,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- de-generate,
- de-generated,
- de-generates,
- de-generating,
- dis improve,
- dis improved,
- dis improves,
- dis improving,
- dis integrate,
- dis integrated,
- dis integrates,
- dis integrating,
- dis-improve,
- dis-improved,
- dis-improves,
- dis-improving,
- dis-integrate,
- dis-integrated,
- dis-integrates,
- dis-integrating,
- disimproved,
- disimproves,
- disimproving,
- go dogs,
- go the dogs,
- go to dogs,
- goes dogs,
- goes pot,
- goes the dogs,
- goes to dogs,
- goes to pot,
- goes to the dogs,
- going dogs,
- going pot,
- going the dogs,
- going to dogs,
- going to the dogs,
- hit skids,
- hit the skids,
- hits the skids,
- hitting skids,
- hitting the skids,
- losing value,
- lost value,
- re lapse,
- re lapsed,
- re lapses,
- re lapsing,
- re turn,
- re turning,
- re turns,
- re-lapse,
- re-lapsed,
- re-lapses,
- re-lapsing,
- re-turned,
- re-turning,
- re-turns,
- retro grade,
- retro graded,
- retro grades,
- retro grading,
- retro-graded,
- retro-grades,
- retro-grading,
- went dogs,
- went pot,
- went the dogs,
- went to dogs,
- went to pot,
- went to the dogs.
-
drag
- Inched,
- Inching,
- am delayed,
- am quiescent,
- are delayed,
- are quiescent,
- art delayed,
- art quiescent,
- be delayed,
- be quiescent,
- being delayed,
- being quiescent,
- encounter difficulty,
- encountered difficulty,
- encountering difficulty,
- encounters difficulty,
- is delayed,
- is quiescent,
- lagged behind,
- lagging behind,
- lags behind,
- limp along,
- limped along,
- limps along,
- trail behind,
- trailed behind,
- trailing behind,
- trails behind,
- was quiescent,
- wast delayed,
- wast quiescent,
- were delayed,
- wert quiescent.
-
dwell
- hang out,
- tenanted,
- tenting,
- Bunked,
- Bunking,
- Roomed,
- Rooming,
- Roosted,
- Roosting,
- Tenanting,
- Tented,
- nested,
- nesting,
- keep house,
- established oneself,
- establishes oneself,
- establishing oneself,
- hang hat,
- hang one hat,
- hang one's hat,
- hang ones hat,
- hanged hat,
- hanged one hat,
- hanged one's hat,
- hanged ones hat,
- hanging hat,
- hanging one hat,
- hanging one's hat,
- hangs hat,
- hangs one hat,
- hangs one's hat,
- hangs ones hat,
- hung hat,
- hung one hat,
- hung one's hat,
- hung ones hat,
- in habit,
- in habited,
- in habiting,
- in habits,
- in-habit,
- in-habiting,
- in-habits,
- keeping house,
- keeps house,
- kept house,
- made home,
- made one home,
- made ones home,
- make home,
- make one home,
- make one's home,
- make ones home,
- makes one's home,
- makes ones home,
- making home,
- making one home,
- making ones home,
- pitch tent,
- pitched tent,
- pitching tent,
- re side,
- re sided,
- re sides,
- re siding,
- re-side,
- re-sided,
- re-sides,
- re-siding.
-
encumber
- saddled,
- weighted,
- weighting,
- Saddling,
- saddle with,
- over-burden,
- over-burdening,
- over-burdened,
- make difficult,
- dis commode,
- dis commodes,
- dis-commode,
- dis-commodes,
- in commode,
- in commodes,
- in conveniences,
- in-commodes,
- in-convenience,
- in-conveniences,
- made difficult,
- makes difficult,
- over burden,
- over burdened,
- over burdening,
- over burdens,
- over loaded,
- over loading,
- over loads,
- over-load,
- over-loaded,
- over-loading,
- over-loads,
- saddled with,
- saddles with,
- saddling with.
- fall back
-
forbid
- lock up,
- Embargoed,
- Embargoing,
- Tabooed,
- Tabooing,
- locked up,
- locking up,
- declare illegal,
- declared illegal,
- declares illegal,
- declaring illegal,
- nixed,
- nixing,
- pro scribe,
- pro scribed,
- pro scribes,
- pro scribing,
- pro-scribe,
- pro-scribed,
- put the chill on,
- puts chill on,
- puts the chill on,
- putting chill on,
- putting the chill on,
- said no,
- say no,
- saying no,
- says no.
-
halt
- close down,
- drop anchor,
- bring to an end,
- come to an end,
- blew the whistle on,
- blew whistle on,
- blow the whistle on,
- blowing the whistle on,
- blowing whistle on,
- blows the whistle on,
- blows whistle on,
- bring an end,
- bring end,
- bring standstill,
- bring to end,
- bring to standstill,
- bringing an end,
- bringing end,
- bringing standstill,
- bringing to an end,
- bringing to end,
- bringing to standstill,
- brings an end,
- brings end,
- brings standstill,
- brings to an end,
- brings to end,
- brings to standstill,
- brought an end,
- brought end,
- brought standstill,
- brought to an end,
- brought to end,
- brought to standstill,
- came an end,
- came end,
- came to an end,
- came to end,
- cease fire,
- ceased fire,
- ceases fire,
- ceasing fire,
- closed down,
- closes down,
- closing down,
- come an end,
- come end,
- come to end,
- comes an end,
- comes end,
- comes to an end,
- comes to end,
- coming an end,
- coming end,
- coming to an end,
- coming to end,
- dropped anchor,
- dropping anchor,
- drops anchor,
- dropt anchor,
- held at bay,
- hold bay,
- holding at bay,
- holding bay,
- holds at bay,
- holds bay,
- put a cork in,
- put cork in,
- puts a cork in,
- puts cork in,
- stands still,
- stood still.
-
hamper
- cumber,
- drag one's feet,
- drag feet,
- drag one feet,
- drag ones feet,
- dragged feet,
- dragged one feet,
- dragged one's feet,
- dragged ones feet,
- dragging feet,
- dragging one feet,
- dragging one's feet,
- dragging ones feet,
- drags feet,
- drags one feet,
- drags one's feet,
- drags ones feet,
- gat in the way,
- gat in way,
- gat the way,
- gat way,
- get in the way,
- get in way,
- get the way,
- gets in the way,
- gets in way,
- gets way,
- getting in the way,
- getting in way,
- getting the way,
- getting way,
- got in the way,
- got in way,
- got the way,
- got way,
- gotten in the way,
- gotten in way,
- gotten the way,
- tie hands,
- tie one hands,
- tie one's hands,
- tie ones hands,
- tied hands,
- tied one hands,
- tied one's hands,
- tied ones hands,
- ties hands,
- ties one hands,
- ties one's hands,
- ties ones hands,
- tying hands,
- tying one hands,
- tying ones hands.
- handicap
-
lade
- bear down on,
- stick to,
- Freighted,
- Freighting,
- Snowed,
- Snowing,
- snow under,
- dump on,
- give it to,
- bare down on,
- beared down on,
- bearing down on,
- bears down on,
- bore down on,
- dish it out,
- dished it out,
- dishes it out,
- dishing it out,
- dumped on,
- dumping on,
- dumps on,
- gave it to,
- giving it to,
- made heavy,
- makes heavy,
- making heavy,
- over charge,
- over charged,
- over charges,
- over charging,
- over-charge,
- over-charged,
- over-charges,
- over-charging,
- snowed under,
- snowing under,
- snows under,
- stick it to,
- sticked it to,
- sticked to,
- sticking to,
- sticks it to,
- sticks to,
- stuck it to,
- stuck to.
- live in
-
mull
- woolgather,
- woolgathering,
- woolgathers,
- hammer away at,
- pore over,
- brood over,
- brooded over,
- brooding over,
- broods over,
- de liberate,
- de liberated,
- de liberates,
- de liberating,
- de-liberate,
- de-liberated,
- de-liberates,
- de-liberating,
- hammered away at,
- hammering away at,
- hammers away at,
- muse on,
- mused on,
- muses on,
- musing on,
- pored over,
- pores over,
- rack one brains,
- rack one's brains,
- rack ones brains,
- racked brains,
- racked one brains,
- racked ones brains,
- racking brains,
- racking one brains,
- racks brains,
- racks one brains,
- racks one's brains,
- racks ones brains,
- re view,
- re viewed,
- re viewing,
- re views,
- re-view,
- re-viewed,
- re-views,
- stew over,
- stewed over,
- stewing over,
- stews over,
- sweat over,
- sweated over,
- sweating over,
- sweats over,
- thinks over,
- thought over,
- woolgathered.
- obstruct
- occlude
- pull out
- quit
- secede
- set back
- shelve
-
stay
- hang in,
- outstay,
- stay put,
- stick around,
- Respited,
- Respiting,
- stop over,
- outstaying,
- outstays,
- outstayed,
- sweat out,
- stay out,
- am accommodated,
- are accommodated,
- art accommodated,
- be accommodated,
- being accommodated,
- hanged in,
- hangs in,
- held fort,
- held the fort,
- hold fort,
- hold the fort,
- holding fort,
- holding the fort,
- holds fort,
- holds the fort,
- hung in,
- is accommodated,
- out stay,
- out stayed,
- out staying,
- out stays,
- out-stay,
- out-stayed,
- out-staying,
- out-stays,
- put down roots,
- puts down roots,
- putting down roots,
- re spiting,
- re-spited,
- staid out,
- staid put,
- stayed out,
- stayed put,
- staying out,
- staying put,
- stays out,
- stays put,
- sticking around,
- stopped over,
- stopping over,
- stops over,
- stopt over,
- sweat it out,
- sweated it out,
- sweated out,
- sweating it out,
- sweating out,
- sweats it out,
- wast accommodated,
- were accommodated,
- shorings,
- under propping,
- under-propping,
- underpropping,
- underproppings.
- still
-
stymie
- dead-end,
- snookered,
- dead ended,
- dead ending,
- dead-ended,
- dead-ending,
- dead-ends,
- deadend,
- deadended,
- deadending,
- deadends,
- snookering,
- snookers,
- threw a monkey wrench in to,
- threw a monkey wrench into,
- threw monkey wrench in to,
- throw monkey wrench in to,
- throwing a monkey wrench in to,
- throwing a monkey wrench into,
- throwing monkey wrench in to,
- throwing monkey wrench into,
- throws a monkey wrench in to,
- throws monkey wrench in to,
- throws monkey wrench into.
- surcease
- temporize
-
thwart
- balk.
-
trail
- drop back,
- fall behind,
- nose out,
- tag along,
- spooring,
- take out after,
- poke along,
- shag,
- hang down,
- falling behind,
- be dog,
- be dogged,
- be dogging,
- be dogs,
- be-dog,
- be-dogged,
- be-dogging,
- be-dogs,
- bedog,
- bedogged,
- bedogging,
- bedogs,
- bring rear,
- bring the rear,
- bring up rear,
- bring up the rear,
- bringing rear,
- bringing the rear,
- bringing up rear,
- bringing up the rear,
- brings rear,
- brings the rear,
- brings up rear,
- brings up the rear,
- brought rear,
- brought the rear,
- brought up rear,
- brought up the rear,
- dropped back,
- dropping back,
- drops back,
- dropt back,
- fell behind,
- follow a scent,
- follow scent,
- followed a scent,
- followed scent,
- following a scent,
- following scent,
- follows a scent,
- follows scent,
- hanged down,
- hanging down,
- hangs down,
- nosed out,
- noses out,
- nosing out,
- poked along,
- pokes along,
- poking along,
- shagging,
- shags,
- spoored,
- tagged along,
- tagging along,
- tags along,
- taking out after,
- took out after.
- traverse
-
wait
- hold on,
- lie in wait,
- look for,
- looking for,
- lying in wait,
- stay,
- stand by,
- looks for,
- lay low,
- sit up for,
- look forward to,
- standing by,
- stay up for,
- bide one time,
- bide one's time,
- bide ones time,
- bided one time,
- bided one's time,
- bided ones time,
- bides one time,
- bides one's time,
- bides ones time,
- biding one time,
- biding one's time,
- biding ones time,
- bode one time,
- bode one's time,
- bode ones time,
- fill time,
- filled time,
- filling time,
- fills time,
- fore saw,
- fore seeing,
- fore seen,
- fore sees,
- fore-saw,
- fore-see,
- fore-seen,
- fore-sees,
- hanged onto hat,
- hanged onto your hat,
- hanging onto hat,
- hanging onto your hat,
- hangs onto hat,
- hangs onto your hat,
- held everything,
- held on,
- hold everything,
- holds everything,
- holds on,
- hung onto hat,
- keep shirt on,
- keeping shirt on,
- keeps shirt on,
- kept shirt on,
- lay wait,
- lied low,
- lied wait,
- lies in wait,
- lies low,
- lies wait,
- looked for,
- looked forward to,
- looking forward to,
- lying low,
- lying wait,
- sat for,
- sat up for,
- sate for,
- sate up for,
- save it,
- saved it,
- saves it,
- saving it,
- sit for,
- sits for,
- sits up for,
- sitting for,
- sitting up for,
- staid for,
- stands by,
- stay for,
- stayed for,
- stayed up for,
- staying for,
- staying up for,
- stays for,
- stays up for,
- stood by,
- sweated it,
- sweating it,
- sweats it.
-
abate
- cool it,
- mellow out,
- Dulling,
- dulls,
- cooled it,
- cooling it,
- cools it,
- de crease,
- de creased,
- de creases,
- de creasing,
- de-crease,
- de-creased,
- de-creases,
- de-creasing,
- go with flow,
- go with the flow,
- goes with flow,
- goes with the flow,
- going with flow,
- going with the flow,
- hang easy,
- hang loose,
- hanged loose,
- hanging easy,
- hanging loose,
- hangs easy,
- hangs loose,
- hung easy,
- hung loose,
- laid back,
- lay back,
- laying back,
- lays back,
- let all hang out,
- let hang out,
- let it all hang out,
- lets all hang out,
- lets it all hang out,
- lets it hang out,
- letted all hang out,
- letted hang out,
- letted it all hang out,
- letted it hang out,
- letting all hang out,
- letting hang out,
- letting it all hang out,
- letting it hang out,
- mellowed out,
- mellowing out,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- sub due,
- sub dues,
- sub side,
- sub sided,
- sub sides,
- sub-due,
- sub-dues,
- sub-sides,
- take easy,
- takes easy,
- takes it easy,
- taking easy,
- taking it easy,
- took it easy,
- un lax,
- un-lax,
- unlaxed,
- unlaxes,
- went with flow,
- went with the flow.
- arrest
-
balk
- fore-stall,
- counter act,
- counter acted,
- counter acting,
- counter acts,
- counter-act,
- counter-acted,
- counter-acting,
- counter-acts,
- cramp one style,
- cramp one's style,
- cramp ones style,
- cramp style,
- cramped one style,
- cramped one's style,
- cramped ones style,
- cramped style,
- cramping one style,
- cramping one's style,
- cramping ones style,
- cramping style,
- cramps one style,
- cramps one's style,
- cramps ones style,
- cramps style,
- dis appoint,
- dis appointed,
- dis appointing,
- dis appoints,
- dis concert,
- dis concerted,
- dis concerting,
- dis concerts,
- dis-appoint,
- dis-appointed,
- dis-appointing,
- dis-appoints,
- dis-concert,
- dis-concerted,
- dis-concerting,
- dis-concerts,
- fore stall,
- fore stalling,
- fore stalls,
- fore-stalled,
- fore-stalling,
- fore-stalls,
- threw a curve,
- threw curve,
- threw monkey wrench in,
- throw curve,
- throw monkey wrench in,
- throwing a curve,
- throwing curve,
- throwing monkey wrench in,
- throws a curve,
- throws curve,
- throws monkey wrench in,
- upset apple cart,
- upset the apple cart,
- upsets apple cart,
- upsets the apple cart,
- upsetting apple cart,
- upsetting the apple cart.
- brake
- dawdle
-
defer
- intermit,
- knuckle,
- knuckles,
- lay over,
- obey,
- protract,
- Caved,
- Caving,
- Intermitted,
- Intermitting,
- Knuckled,
- Knuckling,
- Remitted,
- Shelving,
- Prolonging,
- obeys,
- intermits,
- hang fire,
- setting aside,
- put on ice,
- set aside,
- ex tend,
- ex tended,
- ex tending,
- ex tends,
- ex-tend,
- ex-tended,
- ex-tending,
- ex-tends,
- gave in to,
- gave into,
- gave rain check,
- gave to,
- give in to,
- give rain check,
- give to,
- gives in to,
- gives into,
- gives rain check,
- gives to,
- giving in to,
- giving into,
- giving rain check,
- giving to,
- hanged fire,
- hanging fire,
- hangs fire,
- hung fire,
- knuckleunder,
- knuckleundered,
- knuckleundering,
- knuckleunders,
- laid over,
- laying over,
- lays over,
- post-pone,
- pro-rogue,
- put back burner,
- put hold,
- put ice,
- put on back burner,
- put on hold,
- puts back burner,
- puts hold,
- puts ice,
- puts on back burner,
- puts on hold,
- puts on ice,
- putting back burner,
- putting hold,
- putting ice,
- putting on back burner,
- putting on hold,
- putting on ice,
- sets aside.
-
delay
- encumber,
- encumbered,
- keep back,
- remand,
- withhold,
- Filibustering,
- Loitered,
- Remanded,
- Remanding,
- put off,
- filibustered,
- slackens,
- withholds,
- remands,
- gain time,
- bide time,
- bided time,
- bides time,
- biding time,
- bode time,
- de laying,
- de-laying,
- gained time,
- gaining time,
- gains time,
- cunctation,
- demurral,
- logjam,
- procrastination,
- prorogation,
- Retardment,
- showstopper,
- cooling-off period,
- cooling off period,
- cooling off periods,
- cooling-off periods,
- coolingoff period,
- coolingoff periods,
- cunctations,
- dawdlings,
- de lay,
- de lays,
- de-lay,
- de-lays,
- demurrals,
- dis continuation,
- dis continuations,
- dis-continuation,
- dis-continuations,
- hangup,
- hold ups,
- hold-up,
- lingerings,
- logjams,
- loiterings,
- pro rogation,
- pro rogations,
- pro-rogation,
- pro-rogations,
- procrastinations,
- prorogations,
- retardments,
- showstoppers,
- tarryings.
- detain
- dilly-dally
-
dip
- drop down,
- nose dive,
- slue,
- spiraling,
- Sheered,
- Sheering,
- Slued,
- Sluing,
- nose-dives,
- nose-diving,
- spiraled,
- sheers,
- dropped down,
- dropping down,
- drops down,
- dropt down,
- in cline,
- in clines,
- in-cline,
- in-clines,
- nose dives,
- nose diving,
- nose dove,
- nose-dive,
- nose-dove,
- nosedived,
- nosediving,
- nosedove,
- re ached,
- re aching,
- re-ached,
- re-aching,
- slues,
- spiralled,
- spiralling.
-
discourage
- disincline,
- indispose,
- Disfavored,
- Disfavoring,
- Disinclining,
- Indisposing,
- disinclines,
- indisposes,
- turn aside,
- turned aside,
- dis courage,
- dis courages,
- dis favor,
- dis favored,
- dis favoring,
- dis favors,
- dis incline,
- dis inclined,
- dis inclines,
- dis inclining,
- dis-courage,
- dis-courages,
- dis-favor,
- dis-favored,
- dis-favoring,
- dis-favors,
- dis-incline,
- dis-inclined,
- dis-inclines,
- dis-inclining,
- in dispose,
- in disposed,
- in disposes,
- in disposing,
- in-disposed,
- in-disposes,
- in-disposing,
- turning aside,
- turns aside.
-
ebb
- die down,
- downed,
- downing,
- died down,
- dies down,
- dying down,
- Downs,
- dieing down,
- falls away,
- fell away,
- flowed back,
- flowing back,
- flows back,
- retro cede,
- retro cedes,
- retro ceding,
- retro-cedes,
- retro-ceding,
- backflow,
- reflux,
- Refluence,
- Retrocession,
- outward flow,
- backflows,
- de generation,
- de generations,
- de-generation,
- de-generations,
- dwindlings,
- fading aways,
- flaggings,
- going outs,
- low waters,
- outward flows,
- petering outs,
- re flux,
- re fluxes,
- re-fluxes,
- refluences,
- refluxes,
- retro cession,
- retro cessions,
- retro fluxes,
- retro-cession,
- retro-cessions,
- retro-flux,
- retro-fluxes,
- retroflux,
- retrofluxes,
- sinkings,
- weakenings.
-
fall
- falls,
- fold up,
- give way,
- hit the dirt,
- lie down,
- take place,
- came to pass,
- took place,
- come to pass,
- comes to pass,
- takes place,
- coming to pass,
- taking place,
- lying down,
- defer to,
- eat dirt,
- deferring to,
- giving way,
- falling to pieces,
- am casualty,
- am destroyed,
- am killed,
- am precipitated,
- am taken,
- are casualty,
- are destroyed,
- are killed,
- are precipitated,
- are taken,
- art casualty,
- art destroyed,
- art killed,
- art precipitated,
- art taken,
- ate dirt,
- be came,
- be casualty,
- be come,
- be comes,
- be coming,
- be destroyed,
- be fall,
- be fallen,
- be falling,
- be falls,
- be fell,
- be killed,
- be precipitated,
- be taken,
- be-came,
- be-come,
- be-comes,
- be-coming,
- be-fall,
- be-fallen,
- be-falling,
- be-falls,
- be-fell,
- being casualty,
- being destroyed,
- being killed,
- being precipitated,
- being taken,
- came pass,
- come pass,
- comes pass,
- coming pass,
- deferred to,
- defers to,
- eating dirt,
- eats dirt,
- fall pieces,
- fall to pieces,
- falls pieces,
- fell pieces,
- fell to pieces,
- folded up,
- folding up,
- folds up,
- gave way,
- hits dirt,
- hits the dirt,
- hitting the dirt,
- is casualty,
- is destroyed,
- is killed,
- is precipitated,
- is taken,
- lied down,
- lies down,
- pass in to enemy hands,
- pass into enemy hands,
- passed in to enemy hands,
- passed into enemy hands,
- passes in to enemy hands,
- passes into enemy hands,
- passing in to enemy hands,
- passing into enemy hands,
- take a header,
- take header,
- takes a header,
- takes header,
- taking a header,
- taking header,
- tipped over,
- tipping over,
- tips over,
- took a header,
- took header,
- top pled,
- was casualty,
- was destroyed,
- was killed,
- was precipitated,
- was taken,
- wast casualty,
- wast destroyed,
- wast killed,
- wast lost,
- wast taken,
- were casualty,
- were destroyed,
- were killed,
- were precipitated,
- were taken,
- wert casualty,
- wert destroyed,
- wert killed,
- wert precipitated,
- wert taken.
- immobilize
- impede
- inhibit
-
interfere
- busybodied,
- mix in,
- Intermeddle,
- Intermeddling,
- intermediates,
- intermeddles,
- fool with,
- intermeddled,
- busybodying,
- fooled with,
- fooling with,
- fools with,
- gat involved,
- gets involved,
- getting involved,
- got involved,
- gotten involved,
- inter cede,
- inter ceded,
- inter cedes,
- inter ceding,
- inter fere,
- inter feres,
- inter lope,
- inter loped,
- inter lopes,
- inter meddle,
- inter meddles,
- inter meddling,
- inter mediate,
- inter mediates,
- inter mediating,
- inter pose,
- inter posed,
- inter posing,
- inter-cede,
- inter-ceded,
- inter-cedes,
- inter-ceding,
- inter-fere,
- inter-feres,
- inter-lope,
- inter-loping,
- inter-meddle,
- inter-meddled,
- inter-meddles,
- inter-meddling,
- inter-mediated,
- inter-mediates,
- inter-mediating,
- inter-pose,
- inter-posed,
- inter-posing,
- intermediated,
- intermediating,
- mixed in,
- mixes in,
- mixing in,
- mixt in,
- poke nose in,
- poked nose in,
- pokes nose in,
- poking nose in.
-
lag
- jellied,
- Idled,
- Jellying,
- tooled,
- tooling,
- am behind,
- are behind,
- art behind,
- be behind,
- being behind,
- gat no place fast,
- get no place fast,
- gets no place fast,
- getting no place fast,
- got no place fast,
- inch along,
- inches along,
- inching along,
- is behind,
- lose strength,
- loses strength,
- losing strength,
- lost strength,
- was behind,
- were behind,
- wert behind.
-
linger
- sit around,
- wait around,
- take time,
- am dilatory,
- am long,
- am tardy,
- are dilatory,
- are long,
- are tardy,
- art dilatory,
- art long,
- art tardy,
- be dilatory,
- be long,
- be tardy,
- being dilatory,
- being long,
- being tardy,
- is dilatory,
- is long,
- sat around,
- sate around,
- sits around,
- sitting around,
- take one time,
- take one's time,
- take ones time,
- takes one's time,
- takes ones time,
- takes time,
- taking one time,
- taking one's time,
- taking ones time,
- taking time,
- took one time,
- took ones time,
- took time,
- waited around,
- waiting around,
- waits around,
- was dilatory,
- was long,
- wast dilatory,
- wast tardy,
- were dilatory,
- wert dilatory,
- wert long.
- lodge
- loiter
-
pigeonhole
- tabbed,
- tabbing,
- put aside,
- put down as,
- put bank burner,
- put on bank burner,
- put on the bank burner,
- put the bank burner,
- puts bank burner,
- puts on bank burner,
- puts on the bank burner,
- puts the bank burner,
- putting bank burner,
- putting down as,
- putting on bank burner,
- putting on the bank burner,
- putting the bank burner,
- type cast,
- type casts.
- poke
- postpone
- preclude
- prevent
-
prolong
- spin out,
- stretch out,
- stretched out,
- spun out,
- let ride,
- in crease,
- in creases,
- in creasing,
- in-crease,
- in-creased,
- in-creases,
- let it ride,
- lets it ride,
- letted it ride,
- letted ride,
- letting it ride,
- letting ride,
- made longer,
- make longer,
- makes longer,
- making longer,
- pro long,
- pro longing,
- pro longs,
- pro-long,
- pro-longed,
- pro-longing,
- pro-longs,
- span out,
- spins out,
- stretching out.
- protract
-
relent
- come around,
- die away,
- lighten up,
- showing mercy,
- show mercy,
- showed mercy,
- go along with,
- dying away,
- let happen,
- art merciful,
- awaying,
- aways,
- be merciful,
- being merciful,
- came around,
- change mind,
- change one mind,
- change one's mind,
- change ones mind,
- changed mind,
- changed one mind,
- changed one's mind,
- changed ones mind,
- changes mind,
- changes one mind,
- changes one's mind,
- changes ones mind,
- changing mind,
- changing one mind,
- changing one's mind,
- changing ones mind,
- comes around,
- coming around,
- died away,
- dieing away,
- dies away,
- ease on,
- ease up on,
- ease upon,
- eased on,
- eased up on,
- eases on,
- eases up on,
- eases upon,
- easing on,
- easing up on,
- easing upon,
- gave some slack,
- give quarter,
- give some slack,
- gives quarter,
- gives some slack,
- giving quarter,
- giving some slack,
- go easy on,
- going easy on,
- had mercy,
- had pity,
- haddest mercy,
- haddest pity,
- hadst mercy,
- hadst pity,
- has mercy,
- has pity,
- hast mercy,
- hath pity,
- have mercy,
- have pity,
- having mercy,
- is merciful,
- let it happen,
- lets happen,
- lets it happen,
- letted happen,
- letted it happen,
- letting happen,
- letting it happen,
- lightened up,
- lightening up,
- lightens up,
- said uncle,
- say uncle,
- saying uncle,
- says uncle,
- went easy on,
- were merciful,
- wert merciful.
- remit
- retard
-
retire
- get away,
- go to bed,
- run along,
- rusticate,
- superannuate,
- Rusticated,
- Rusticating,
- getting away,
- gets away,
- got away,
- gotten away,
- deny oneself,
- seclude oneself,
- absenting oneself,
- absents oneself,
- denied oneself,
- denies oneself,
- denying oneself,
- gat away,
- gave up work,
- gave work,
- give up work,
- give work,
- gives up work,
- gives work,
- giving up work,
- giving work,
- go bed,
- go one's room,
- go ones room,
- go room,
- go to one room,
- go to ones room,
- goes bed,
- goes one room,
- goes ones room,
- goes room,
- goes sleep,
- goes to bed,
- goes to one room,
- goes to one's room,
- goes to ones room,
- goes to room,
- goes to sleep,
- going bed,
- going one room,
- going ones room,
- going room,
- going sleep,
- going to bed,
- going to one room,
- going to ones room,
- going to room,
- going to sleep,
- hit sack,
- hits sack,
- hits the sack,
- hitting sack,
- leaved service,
- leaves service,
- leaving service,
- left service,
- made vacant,
- make vacant,
- making vacant,
- ran along,
- re move,
- re moved,
- re moving,
- re tire,
- re tired,
- re tires,
- re tiring,
- re-move,
- re-moves,
- re-moving,
- re-tire,
- re-tiring,
- runs along,
- rusticates,
- secluding oneself,
- sever connections,
- severed connections,
- severing connections,
- stop working,
- stopped working,
- stopping working,
- stops working,
- stopt working,
- went bed,
- went one room,
- went one's room,
- went ones room,
- went sleep,
- went to bed,
- went to one room,
- went to one's room,
- went to ones room,
- went to room,
- went to sleep.
-
retract
- draw in,
- unsay,
- nigged,
- back out of,
- reel in,
- ate one words,
- ate one's words,
- ate ones words,
- ate words,
- backed out of,
- backing out of,
- backs out of,
- dis avow,
- dis avowed,
- dis avowing,
- dis avows,
- dis claim,
- dis claimed,
- dis claiming,
- dis claims,
- dis owned,
- dis owning,
- dis-avow,
- dis-avowed,
- dis-avowing,
- dis-avows,
- dis-claim,
- dis-claimed,
- dis-claiming,
- dis-claims,
- dis-owned,
- dis-owning,
- drawing in,
- draws in,
- drew in,
- eat one words,
- eat one's words,
- eat words,
- eating one words,
- eating one's words,
- eating ones words,
- eating words,
- eats one's words,
- eats ones words,
- eats words,
- forgat it,
- forgets it,
- forgetting it,
- forgot it,
- had change of heart,
- haddest change heart,
- hadst change heart,
- hadst change of heart,
- has change of heart,
- hast change heart,
- hast change of heart,
- hath change heart,
- have change heart,
- have change of heart,
- having change heart,
- having change of heart,
- nig,
- nigging,
- re calling,
- re calls,
- re tract,
- re tracts,
- re-call,
- re-called,
- re-calling,
- re-calls,
- re-tract,
- re-tracts,
- reeled in,
- reeling in,
- un say,
- un-say,
- un-saying,
- unsays.
-
retreat
- keep apart,
- lay down,
- move back,
- retreating,
- start back,
- keep aloof,
- laid down,
- keeping aloof,
- dis engage,
- dis engaged,
- dis engages,
- dis engaging,
- dis-engage,
- dis-engaged,
- dis-engages,
- dis-engaging,
- keeping apart,
- keeps aloof,
- kept aloof,
- kept apart,
- laying down,
- lays down,
- moves back,
- moving back,
- re treated,
- re treating,
- re-treated,
- re-treating,
- secluded oneself,
- secludes oneself,
- started back,
- starting back,
- starts back,
- hiding place,
- Adyta,
- Adytum,
- coverts,
- de fenses,
- de-fenses,
- hiding places,
- re treat,
- re treats,
- re-sort,
- re-sorts,
- re-treat,
- re-treats,
- safe place,
- safe places.
-
reverse
- evert,
- everting,
- turn around,
- turn back,
- upend,
- upended,
- upending,
- Everted,
- Transplacing,
- Transplace,
- inverses,
- upends,
- EVERTS,
- turned back,
- about face,
- about faced,
- about facing,
- evaginate,
- evaginated,
- evaginates,
- evaginating,
- ex change,
- ex changes,
- ex changing,
- ex-changed,
- ex-changing,
- flip flopping,
- flip-flopping,
- flipflopped,
- flipflopping,
- go backwards,
- goes backwards,
- going backwards,
- in verse,
- in versed,
- in-verse,
- in-versed,
- in-versing,
- inter change,
- inter changed,
- inter changes,
- inter changing,
- inter-change,
- inter-changes,
- inter-changing,
- inversed,
- inversing,
- move backwards,
- moved backwards,
- moves backwards,
- moving backwards,
- over turn,
- over turning,
- over turns,
- over-turn,
- over-turning,
- re arranged,
- re arranges,
- re arranging,
- re verse,
- re versing,
- re-arrange,
- re-arranged,
- re-arranges,
- re-arranging,
- re-verse,
- re-versed,
- trans place,
- trans places,
- trans placing,
- trans pose,
- trans posed,
- trans-place,
- trans-placed,
- trans-places,
- trans-pose,
- trans-posing,
- transplaces,
- turned around,
- turning around,
- turning back,
- turns around,
- turns back,
- up ended,
- up ends,
- up-ended,
- up-ending,
- up-ends,
- went backwards.
- stall
-
stand
- Lasted,
- am located,
- am situated,
- am valid,
- are located,
- are situated,
- are valid,
- art located,
- art situated,
- art valid,
- be located,
- be longed,
- be longing,
- be longs,
- be situated,
- be valid,
- be-long,
- be-longed,
- be-longing,
- be-longs,
- being located,
- being situated,
- being valid,
- is located,
- is situated,
- was located,
- was situated,
- was valid,
- wast located,
- wast situated,
- were located,
- were situated,
- were valid,
- wert located,
- wert situated.
-
suspend
- inactivate,
- inactivated,
- inactivates,
- put on the shelf,
- in activate,
- in activated,
- in activates,
- in activating,
- in-activate,
- in-activated,
- in-activates,
- laid on table,
- laid on the table,
- laid the table,
- lay on the table,
- lay table,
- lay the table,
- laying on table,
- laying on the table,
- laying table,
- lays on table,
- lays on the table,
- lays table,
- lays the table,
- pinkslip,
- put shelf,
- put the shelf,
- puts on the shelf,
- puts shelf,
- puts the shelf,
- putting on the shelf,
- putting shelf,
- putting the shelf.
- tarry
- waive
- leave behind, relinquish
- lessen, grow or cause to grow less
- stop temporarily and wait for
- superannuate
-
deter
- talk out of,
- Disadvise,
- Forfend,
- act like a wet blanket,
- act like wet blanket,
- acted like a wet blanket,
- acted like wet blanket,
- acting like a wet blanket,
- acting like wet blanket,
- acts like a wet blanket,
- acts like wet blanket,
- dis advise,
- dis advised,
- dis advises,
- dis advising,
- dis-advise,
- dis-advised,
- dis-advises,
- dis-advising,
- disadvised,
- disadvises,
- disadvising,
- forfended,
- forfending,
- put a damper on,
- put damper on,
- puts a damper on,
- puts damper on,
- putting damper on,
- talked out of,
- talking out of,
- talks out of,
- threw cold water on,
- throwing cold water on,
- throws cold water on.
- stop a proceeding
- move something forward, often quickly
- give money beforehand
- promote or propose an idea
- increase in amount, number, or position
- backpedal
-
belay
- bring to a standstill,
- be lay,
- be laying,
- be lays,
- be-lay,
- be-laying,
- be-lays,
- bring a standstill,
- bringing a standstill,
- bringing to a standstill,
- brings a standstill,
- brings to a standstill,
- brought a standstill,
- brought to a standstill,
- call a halt to,
- call halt to,
- called a halt to,
- called halt to,
- calling a halt to,
- calling halt to,
- calls a halt to,
- calls halt to.
- stick; become stuck
- check; stop
- hinder, restrain
- smother, block
- rule, have power
-
move very slowly
- drag.
-
repress, restrict
- curb.
- dawdle, delay
-
hold back; block
- dam.
- diminish, muffle, quiet
- lessen, become less
- conquer in military manner
- hold off, put off
- hold, keep back; arrest
- check, inhibit from action
-
wither, dwindle
- die.
- waste time
-
lower, descend
- dip.
- vanish; cease
- deter, dissuade; restrain
-
bring to an end
- end.
-
think about seriously
- mull.
-
descend; become lower
- fall.
- shy away, wince
- outlaw, prohibit an action
-
yield, collapse
- give.
-
stop, cause to stop
- halt.
- impede, restrict
- give disadvantage
- wait; be uncertain
- prevent, slow down
- obstruct, hinder
- restrict, prevent
- meddle, intervene
- bother, interfere
-
move slowly; delay
- lag.
- loiter, delay
- stay at temporary residence
- hang around; stroll
- fail to do; forget
- prevent, restrict
- categorize; shelve
-
move along slowly
- poke.
- put off till later time
- inhibit; make impossible
- keep from happening or continuing
- delay, put off doing
- make impossible; stop
- extend, draw out
- die down; let up
- stop, postpone
- withstand, oppose
- hinder, obstruct
- leave a place or responsibility
- take back; renege on
- turn upside down or backwards
- pull away; split from
- defer, postpone
- recoil, shy away
-
delay, restrict
- slow.
- travel briefly; visit
- sojourn
- be in force, exist
- make quiet, motionless, calm
- frustrate, hinder
- delay, hold off
- gain or make time
- lag behind, follow
- resist, contradict
-
pause, rest
- wait.
- give up; let go
- remove something or someone from situation
-
cessation
- cutoff,
- Desistance,
- let-up,
- break offs,
- break-off,
- break-offs,
- breakoff,
- breakoffs,
- ceasings,
- desistances,
- dis continuance,
- dis continuances,
- dis-continuance,
- dis-continuances,
- grinding halt,
- grinding halts,
- haltings,
- inter missions,
- let ups,
- let-ups,
- re mission,
- re missions,
- re-mission,
- re-missions,
- screaming halt,
- screaming halts.
- departure
- avoidance
- ending
- regression
- hindrance
- rest
- restraint
- disappointment
-
inactivity
- rest.
-
recession
- bottom out,
- deflation,
- hard time,
- hard times,
- shakeout,
- unemployment,
- shakeouts,
- big trouble,
- big troubles,
- bottom outs,
- bottom-out,
- bottom-outs,
- bottomout,
- bottomouts,
- deflations,
- re cession,
- re cessions,
- re-cession,
- re-cessions,
- un employment,
- un employments,
- un-employment,
- un-employments,
- unemployments.
- deadlock
- deferment
- discouragement
-
frustration
- Nonfulfillment,
- nonsuccess,
- unfulfillment,
- blockings,
- curbings,
- dis satisfaction,
- dis satisfactions,
- dis-satisfaction,
- dis-satisfactions,
- foilings,
- non fulfillment,
- non fulfillments,
- non success,
- non successes,
- non-fulfillment,
- non-fulfillments,
- non-successes,
- nonsuccesses,
- old one two,
- old one twos,
- old one-twos,
- old onetwo,
- old onetwos,
- un fulfillments,
- un-fulfillment,
- un-fulfillments,
- unfulfillments.
- pause
- problem
- tie-up
- filibuster
- postponement
- respite
- retrogression
- setback
- standstill
- stoppage
- forward movement
- improvement, progress in development
- slowing or stopping
- advance
- deferment/deferral
- stumbling block
- deferment, interruption
-
regression; decline
- ebb.
- obstruction of progress, especially in verbal argument
- disappointment, thwarting
- obstruction, difficulty
- wait, delay
- reversal of action; reduction of business activity
- pause, suspension in activity
-
end, halt; impediment
- stop.
- halt, curtailment
- ahead in position or time
-
Other relevant words
- abase,
- atrophy,
- back away,
- baffle,
- bestow,
- blench,
- chasten,
- choke,
- clamp down,
- contribute,
- crack down,
- crumble,
- debase,
- decelerate,
- degrade,
- depress,
- descend,
- desist,
- deteriorate,
- devolve,
- discontinue,
- donate,
- enjoin,
- falter,
- fetch up,
- flinch,
- foil,
- forbid,
- forestall,
- frustrate,
- give,
- give away,
- hang back,
- head off,
- humiliate,
- kick downstairs,
- leave off,
- obstruct,
- obviate,
- oppose,
- outlaw,
- preclude,
- prevent,
- prohibit,
- proscribe,
- quail,
- quell,
- recoil,
- reduce,
- repress,
- retrogress,
- revert,
- shrink,
- shut off,
- slacken,
- squash,
- squelch,
- squinch,
- stagger,
- stall,
- stave off,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- thwart,
- vacillate,
- waver,
- wince,
- wobble,
- worsen,
- Disrate,
- slap down,
- about-face,
- backwash,
- breakdown,
- collapse,
- crash,
- decadence,
- decay,
- declension,
- decrease,
- degeneration,
- deterioration,
- detriment,
- disablement,
- downgrade,
- draw back,
- drawback,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- failing,
- flagging,
- glitch,
- hindrance,
- impairment,
- impediment,
- lapse,
- late,
- lessening,
- middle,
- move back,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- recess,
- reduction,
- reflux,
- regression,
- retraction,
- retrogression,
- return,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- setback,
- shortcoming,
- sinking,
- slowing,
- turnabout,
- turnaround,
- weakening,
- worsening,
- Languishment,
- stumbling block,
- after,
- cast down,
- ensuing,
- hinder,
- humble,
- late,
- later,
- lower,
- posterior,
- retrograde,
- subsequent.
-
Other antonyms
- abandon,
- abide,
- back,
- bestow,
- break,
- bump,
- cessation,
- combat,
- command,
- condemn,
- contend,
- contribute,
- counter,
- denounce,
- depress,
- discontinue,
- dishonor,
- dismiss,
- donate,
- end,
- exit,
- expel,
- fall,
- fight,
- give,
- give back,
- give up,
- give way,
- go,
- go against,
- hold back,
- keep going,
- keep out,
- leave,
- leave alone,
- lie down,
- lodge,
- neglect,
- obey,
- oust,
- pass on,
- prolong,
- protract,
- pull out,
- put in,
- quell,
- re-creation,
- receive,
- remain,
- remove,
- resist,
- rest,
- retire,
- stick to,
- weaken,
- worsen,
- Forfend,
- let up,
- hang up,
- stand by,
- letting go,
- bow to,
- prevail over,
- abstain from,
- refrain from,
- let happen.
Antonym of the day
wreathes
- Antonyms:
- uncover, unwrap, stay.
