What are the opposite words for cleaving to?

The antonyms for "cleaving to" are abandoning, relinquishing, rejecting, and disowning. Abandoning means to give up or desert someone or something, while relinquishing means to release or let go of something or someone. Rejecting means to refuse, deny, or turn down something, whereas disowning means to formally renounce or disavow a relationship, ownership, or association. The antonyms for "cleaving to" suggest an act of detachment or separation rather than attachment or connection. In other words, they signify a refusal to cling to someone or something, and instead, they indicate a desire to let go or cut ties with them.

What are the antonyms for Cleaving to?

• v.

  • adhere
  • condemn
  ,
  • disjoin
  ,
  • disobey
  ,
  • disregard
  ,
  • forget
  ,
  • ignore
  ,
  • let go
  ,
  • loose
  ,
  • loosen
  ,
  • neglect
  ,
  • not conform
  ,
  • overlook
  ,
  • release
  ,
  • scorn
  ,
  • separate
  ,
  • unfasten
  .
  • cherish
  • abandon
  ,
  • abhor
  ,
  • denounce
  ,
  • deprive
  ,
  • despise
  ,
  • destroy
  ,
  • detest
  ,
  • dishonor
  ,
  • dislike
  ,
  • disparage
  ,
  • disrespect
  ,
  • forsake
  ,
  • hate
  ,
  • hurt
  ,
  • not care
  ,
  • reject
  ,
  • renounce
  ,
  • starve
  ,
  • turn away
  .
  • cling
  • detach
  ,
  • discontinue
  ,
  • halt
  ,
  • stop
  .

Famous quotes with Cleaving to

• I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

  George Eliot
• I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

  George Eliot
• A good woman is a wondrous creature, cleaving to the right and to the good under all change: lovely in youthful comeliness, lovely all her life long in comeliness of heart.

  Alfred
• All dreads other than reverent dread that are proffered to us, though they come under the colour of holiness yet are not so true, and hereby may they be known asunder. — That dread that maketh us hastily to flee from all that is not good and fall into our Lord’s breast, as the Child into the Mother’s bosom, with all our intent and with all our mind, knowing our feebleness and our great need, knowing His everlasting goodness and His blissful love, only seeking to Him for salvation, cleaving to with sure trust: that dread that bringeth us into this working, it is natural, gracious, good and true. And all that is contrary to this, either it is wrong, or it is mingled with wrong. Then is this the remedy, to know them both and refuse the wrong.

  Julian of Norwich

Synonyms:

parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parrot, parrot, parakeet, paraquet, paroquet.