What are the opposite words for prolong?
Antonyms for the word "prolong" include shorten, abbreviate, curtail, reduce, cut, abridge, decrease, truncate, shrink, and compress. The word "prolong" implies extending or stretching out, while its antonyms suggest the opposite -- bringing something to an end or making it shorter. For example, one can prolong a meeting or a conversation by adding more topics or details. Conversely, one can shorten or abbreviate the same meeting or conversation by leaving out information or getting straight to the point. Antonyms help us to understand and express the nuances of language, providing us with a richer vocabulary and clearer communication.
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decrease
- die down,
- downed,
- downing,
- dry up,
- drying up,
- narrow down,
- run low,
- slacken,
- slow down,
- wearing away,
- died down,
- dies down,
- dying down,
- Downs,
- running low,
- slacking off,
- slowed down,
- slowing down,
- de cay,
- de cays,
- de crease,
- de creased,
- de creases,
- de creasing,
- de generate,
- de generated,
- de generates,
- de generating,
- de valuate,
- de valuated,
- de valuates,
- de valuating,
- de-cay,
- de-cays,
- de-crease,
- de-creased,
- de-creases,
- de-creasing,
- de-generate,
- de-generated,
- de-generates,
- de-generating,
- de-valuate,
- de-valuated,
- de-valuates,
- de-valuating,
- dieing down,
- dried up,
- dries up,
- lose edge,
- loses edge,
- losing edge,
- lost edge,
- narrowed down,
- narrowing down,
- narrows down,
- ran low,
- re strain,
- re strained,
- re straining,
- re strains,
- re-strain,
- re-strained,
- re-straining,
- re-strains,
- slacked off,
- slacks off,
- slows down,
- tail off,
- tailed off,
- tailing off,
- tails off.
- moderate
- contract
-
curtail
- boil down,
- minify,
- pare down,
- Minified,
- Minifying,
- roll back,
- paring down,
- boiled down,
- boiling down,
- boils down,
- gat meat,
- gat to meat,
- get meat,
- get to meat,
- gets meat,
- gets to meat,
- getting meat,
- getting to meat,
- got meat,
- got to meat,
- gotten meat,
- gotten to meat,
- minifies,
- pared down,
- pares down,
- put in nutshell,
- put nutshell,
- puts in nutshell,
- puts nutshell,
- putting in nutshell,
- putting nutshell,
- re trench,
- re trenched,
- re trenches,
- re trenching,
- re-trench,
- re-trenched,
- re-trenches,
- re-trenching,
- rolled back,
- rolling back,
- rolls back.
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diminish
- badmouth,
- die out,
- dispraise,
- fading away,
- peter out,
- Dispraised,
- Dispraising,
- OUTS,
- dispraises,
- outed,
- detract from,
- dump on,
- bad mouth,
- cut down size,
- cut down to size,
- cuts down size,
- cuts down to size,
- cutting down size,
- cutting down to size,
- de cried,
- de cries,
- de cry,
- de crying,
- de mean,
- de meaning,
- de means,
- de value,
- de valued,
- de values,
- de valuing,
- de-cried,
- de-cries,
- de-cry,
- de-crying,
- de-mean,
- de-meaning,
- de-means,
- de-value,
- de-valued,
- de-values,
- de-valuing,
- detracted from,
- detracting from,
- detracts from,
- died out,
- dieing out,
- dies out,
- dis praise,
- dis praised,
- dis praises,
- dis praising,
- dis-praise,
- dis-praised,
- dis-praises,
- dis-praising,
- dumped on,
- dumping on,
- dumps on,
- dying out,
- faded away,
- fades away,
- gave comeuppance,
- give comeuppance,
- gives comeuppance,
- giving comeuppance,
- knock high horse,
- knock off high horse,
- knocked high horse,
- knocked off high horse,
- knocking high horse,
- knocks off high horse,
- petering out,
- poormouth,
- poormouthing,
- poormouths.
- shorten
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recede
- die off,
- going away,
- offing,
- Re-turn,
- de part,
- de parted,
- de parting,
- de parts,
- de-part,
- de-parted,
- de-parting,
- de-parts,
- died off,
- dieing off,
- dies off,
- drain away,
- drained away,
- draining away,
- drains away,
- dying off,
- goes away,
- offed,
- re cedes,
- re ceding,
- re tract,
- re tracts,
- re turn,
- re turning,
- re turns,
- re-cede,
- re-ceded,
- re-cedes,
- re-ceding,
- re-tract,
- re-tracts,
- re-turned,
- re-turning,
- re-turns.
-
die
- break down,
- dilapidate,
- ease off,
- fade away,
- fade out,
- fizzle out,
- go bad,
- Dilapidating,
- Retrograded,
- Retrograding,
- went downhill,
- dilapidates,
- goes downhill,
- go downhill,
- going downhill,
- retrogrades,
- melt away,
- breaking down,
- brake down,
- breaks down,
- broke down,
- dis appear,
- dis appeared,
- dis appearing,
- dis appears,
- dis-appear,
- dis-appeared,
- dis-appearing,
- dis-appears,
- 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,
- retro grade,
- retro graded,
- retro grades,
- retro grading,
- retro-graded,
- retro-grades,
- retro-grading,
- went bad.
-
slow
- backwater,
- rein in,
- stunting,
- Reefed,
- retardates,
- Back-water,
- reined in,
- retardate,
- anchored it,
- anchoring it,
- anchors it,
- back water,
- back watered,
- back watering,
- back waters,
- back-watered,
- back-watering,
- back-waters,
- backwatered,
- backwatering,
- backwaters,
- de tain,
- de tains,
- de-tain,
- de-tains,
- embogged,
- embogging,
- embogs,
- hit brakes,
- hit the brakes,
- hits brakes,
- hits the brakes,
- hitting brakes,
- hitting the brakes,
- keep waiting,
- keeping waiting,
- keeps waiting,
- kept waiting,
- lets down flaps,
- letted down flaps,
- letting down flaps,
- lose speed,
- lose steam,
- loses speed,
- loses steam,
- losing steam,
- lost steam,
- reduce speed,
- reduced speed,
- reduces speed,
- reducing speed,
- reining in,
- reins in,
- retardated.
-
weaken
- give way,
- thin out,
- losing spirit,
- giving way,
- de vitalize,
- de vitalized,
- de vitalizes,
- de vitalizing,
- de-vitalize,
- de-vitalized,
- de-vitalizes,
- de-vitalizing,
- gave way,
- in validate,
- in validated,
- in validates,
- in validating,
- in-validate,
- in-validated,
- in-validates,
- in-validating,
- lose spirit,
- loses spirit,
- lost spirit,
- thinned out,
- thinning out,
- thins out,
- under mined,
- under mining,
- under-mined,
- under-mining.
- lower
-
lessen
- de-escalate,
- deescalate,
- deescalated,
- deescalating,
- wind down,
- take the edge off,
- de escalate,
- de escalated,
- de escalates,
- de escalating,
- de grade,
- de graded,
- de grades,
- de grading,
- de-escalated,
- de-escalates,
- de-escalating,
- de-grade,
- de-graded,
- de-grades,
- de-grading,
- deescalates,
- slacked up,
- slacks up,
- softpedal,
- take bite out,
- take edge off,
- take the bite out,
- take the sting out,
- takes bite out,
- takes edge off,
- takes sting out,
- takes the bite out,
- takes the edge off,
- takes the sting out,
- taking bite out,
- taking edge off,
- taking sting out,
- taking the bite out,
- taking the edge off,
- taking the sting out,
- took bite out,
- took edge off,
- took sting out,
- took the bite out,
- took the edge off,
- took the sting out,
- winded down,
- winding down,
- winds down,
- wound down.
- slacken
- soften
- condense
-
cut short
- break short,
- stop dead,
- put a stop to,
- brake short,
- breaking short,
- breaks short,
- bring an end; leave unfinished,
- bring end; leave unfinished,
- bring to an end; leave unfinished,
- bring to end; leave unfinished,
- bringing an end; leave unfinished,
- bringing end; leave unfinished,
- bringing to an end; leave unfinished,
- bringing to end; leave unfinished,
- brings an end; leave unfinished,
- brings end; leave unfinished,
- brings to an end; leave unfinished,
- brings to end; leave unfinished,
- broke short,
- brought an end; leave unfinished,
- brought end; leave unfinished,
- brought to an end; leave unfinished,
- brought to end; leave unfinished,
- inter cept,
- inter-cept,
- post pone,
- post pones,
- post-pone,
- post-pones,
- put stop to,
- puts a stop to,
- puts stop to,
- putting a stop to,
- putting stop to,
- stop cold,
- stop short,
- stopped cold,
- stopped dead,
- stopped short,
- stopping cold,
- stopping dead,
- stopping short,
- stops cold,
- stops dead,
- stops short,
- stopt cold,
- stopt dead,
- stopt short.
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minimize
- miniaturize,
- underplay,
- cut rate,
- knocked down,
- knocks down,
- knocking down,
- miniaturizes,
- underplaying,
- underplayed,
- underplays,
- poor-mouthing,
- make light of,
- knock down,
- be little,
- be littles,
- be-little,
- be-littles,
- cuts rate,
- cutting rate,
- de tract,
- de tracts,
- de-tract,
- de-tracts,
- dis counted,
- dis counting,
- dis counts,
- dis-counted,
- dis-counting,
- dis-counts,
- made light of,
- made little of,
- make little of,
- makes light of,
- makes little of,
- making light of,
- making little of,
- miniaturizing,
- pooh pooh,
- poohpooh,
- poor mouth,
- poor mouthed,
- poor mouthing,
- poor mouths,
- poor-mouthed,
- under estimate,
- under estimated,
- under estimates,
- under play,
- under played,
- under playing,
- under-estimate,
- under-estimated,
- under-estimates,
- under-estimating,
- under-play,
- under-played,
- under-playing,
- under-plays.
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reduce
- banting,
- lose weight,
- nutshell,
- Bankrupted,
- Bankrupting,
- rebated,
- rebating,
- nutshells,
- bankrupts,
- bant,
- banted,
- bants,
- de base,
- de based,
- de basing,
- de press,
- de pressed,
- de presses,
- de pressing,
- de-base,
- de-based,
- de-basing,
- de-press,
- de-pressed,
- de-presses,
- de-pressing,
- go a diet,
- go diet,
- go on a diet,
- go on diet,
- goes a diet,
- goes on a diet,
- going a diet,
- going diet,
- going on a diet,
- going on diet,
- loses weight,
- losing weight,
- lost weight,
- nutshelled,
- nutshelling,
- re bate,
- re bated,
- re bates,
- re bating,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re-bate,
- re-bated,
- re-bating,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- take off weight,
- take weight,
- takes off weight,
- takes weight,
- taking off weight,
- taking weight,
- took off weight,
- took weight,
- went a diet,
- went on a diet,
- went on diet.
- sink
- subside
-
abate
- cool it,
- let go,
- mellow out,
- quell,
- recede,
- take it easy,
- taper off,
- unlax,
- waning,
- Dulling,
- Slackened,
- Waned,
- letting go,
- lets go,
- tapers,
- dulls,
- slackens,
- cooled it,
- cooling it,
- cools it,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- 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 easy,
- 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,
- let it hang out,
- lets all hang out,
- lets hang out,
- lets it all hang out,
- lets it hang out,
- letted all hang out,
- letted go,
- 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,
- mellows out,
- re cede,
- re ceded,
- sub due,
- sub dues,
- sub siding,
- sub-due,
- sub-dues,
- sub-side,
- sub-sided,
- sub-siding,
- take easy,
- takes easy,
- takes it easy,
- taking easy,
- taking it easy,
- tapers off,
- took easy,
- took it easy,
- un lax,
- un-lax,
- unlaxed,
- unlaxes,
- unlaxing,
- went with flow,
- went with the flow.
- dwindle
-
ebb
- flowed back,
- flowing back,
- flows back,
- re tire,
- re tired,
- re tires,
- re tiring,
- re treating,
- re treats,
- re-tire,
- re-tiring,
- re-treat,
- re-treated,
- re-treating,
- re-treats,
- retro cede,
- retro cedes,
- retro ceding,
- retro-cedes,
- retro-ceding,
- with draw,
- with drawing,
- with drawn,
- with draws,
- with drew,
- with-draw,
- with-drawing,
- with-drawn,
- with-drew.
-
fade
- fag out,
- tucker out,
- wasting away,
- Evanish,
- waste away,
- wasted away,
- die on vine,
- die vine,
- died on vine,
- died vine,
- dieing on vine,
- dieing vine,
- dies on vine,
- dies vine,
- dis perse,
- dis solve,
- dis solved,
- dis solves,
- dis solving,
- dis-perse,
- dis-solve,
- dis-solved,
- dis-solves,
- dis-solving,
- dying on vine,
- dying vine,
- evanished,
- evanishes,
- fagged out,
- fagging out,
- fags out,
- on vine,
- tuckering out,
- tuckers out,
- wastes away.
-
lull
- cool off,
- quiet down,
- lullabied,
- balming,
- balmed,
- be calm,
- be calmed,
- be calming,
- be calms,
- be-calm,
- be-calmed,
- be-calming,
- be-calms,
- cooled off,
- cooling off,
- cools off,
- lullabying,
- put a lid on,
- put lid on,
- puts a lid on,
- putting a lid on,
- putting lid on,
- quieted down,
- quieting down,
- quiets down,
- take edge,
- take the edge,
- takes edge,
- takes the edge,
- taking edge,
- taking the edge,
- took edge,
- took the edge.
- mollify
-
palliate
- prettify,
- whiting,
- Glozed,
- Glozing,
- Gloze,
- Whites,
- prettified,
- prettifying,
- prettifies,
- apologize for,
- apologized for,
- apologizes for,
- apologizing for,
- dis guise,
- dis guised,
- dis guises,
- dis guising,
- dis-guise,
- dis-guised,
- dis-guises,
- dis-guising,
- glozes,
- put a band aid,
- put a band-aid,
- put a bandaid,
- put band aid,
- put bandaid,
- put on a band aid,
- put on a bandaid,
- put on band aid,
- put on band-aid,
- put on bandaid,
- puts a band aid,
- puts a band-aid,
- puts a bandaid,
- puts band aid,
- puts band-aid,
- puts bandaid,
- puts on a band-aid,
- puts on a bandaid,
- puts on band aid,
- puts on band-aid,
- puts on bandaid,
- putting a band aid,
- putting a band-aid,
- putting a bandaid,
- putting band aid,
- putting bandaid,
- putting on a band aid,
- putting on a band-aid,
- putting on a bandaid,
- putting on band aid,
- putting on band-aid,
- putting on bandaid,
- quick fixed,
- quick fixing,
- quick fixt.
-
remit
- ease up,
- intermit,
- prorogue,
- Amnestied,
- Amnestying,
- Intermitted,
- Intermitting,
- Prorogued,
- Proroguing,
- prorogues,
- intermits,
- de lay,
- de laying,
- de lays,
- de-lay,
- de-laying,
- de-lays,
- eased up,
- eases up,
- easing up,
- pro rogue,
- pro rogues,
- pro roguing,
- pro-rogued,
- pro-rogues,
- pro-roguing,
- re lax,
- re lease,
- re leases,
- re peal,
- re pealed,
- re pealing,
- re peals,
- re spite,
- re spited,
- re spites,
- re-lax,
- re-lease,
- re-leased,
- re-leases,
- re-pealed,
- re-peals,
- re-spites,
- re-spiting.
- lessen, grow or cause to grow less
- cut short; abridge
- stop earlier than intended
-
downsize
- scale down,
- scale back,
- de duct,
- de ducted,
- de ducting,
- de ducts,
- de-duct,
- de-ducted,
- de-ducting,
- de-ducts,
- phased down,
- phases down,
- phasing down,
- rolled down,
- rolling down,
- rolls down,
- scaled back,
- scaled down,
- scales back,
- scales down,
- scaling back,
- scaling down,
- trim away,
- trimmed away,
- trimming away,
- trims away,
- tuned down,
- tuning down.
- grow less or make less
-
wither, dwindle
- die.
- become or cause to be less
- to decrease in size, especially of a workforce
- waste away; taper off
-
subside; decline
- ebb.
-
dwindle, die out
- fade.
- lower, reduce
-
calm, ease off
- lull.
- make smaller; underrate
- restrain, control
- pacify, soothe
- gloss over; cover up
- extend, draw out
- lessen, restrict
- make less; decrease
- stop, postpone
-
fall, decrease
- sink.
-
delay, restrict
- slow.
- calm, soothe
- die down; decrease
- reduce the strength of
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
un-friendlinesses
- Antonyms:
- accord, affection, agreement.
