What are the opposite words for standing in?

Standing in refers to temporarily taking someone else's place or doing a job that is not typically yours. Some antonyms for this phrase include resigning, quitting, leaving or departing. These words indicate the opposite of standing in-- instead of taking on extra responsibilities, one is stepping away from them. Other antonyms for standing in can include 'abandoning', 'relinquishing', 'renouncing' or 'forsaking', all of which indicate a complete departure or estrangement from a situation. Antonyms for standing in can be used with varying degrees of finality depending on the context, but all indicate some sort of departure or withdrawal.

What are the antonyms for Standing in?

• v.

  • fill in
  • leave blank
  .
  • replace
  • break
  ,
  • damage
  ,
  • deprive
  ,
  • forfeit
  ,
  • hold
  ,
  • keep
  ,
  • leave alone
  ,
  • lose
  ,
  • penalize
  ,
  • precede
  ,
  • remain
  ,
  • take
  ,
  • worsen
  .
  • supplant
  • allow
  ,
  • give in
  ,
  • permit
  ,
  • surrender
  ,
  • take in
  .

Famous quotes with Standing in

• These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

  Ansel Adams
• You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

  Michelangelo Antonioni
• Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

  Joe Biden
• My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

  Honor Blackman
• And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

  Andre Braugher

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