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All achieve antonyms

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verb achieve

  • commence — When something commences or you commence it, it begins.
  • unsettle — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
  • forfeit — a fine; penalty.
  • destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
  • ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
  • surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
  • detain — When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
  • imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
  • unseal — to break or remove the seal of; open, as something sealed or firmly closed: to unseal a letter; to unseal a tomb.
  • begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.
  • start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
  • halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
  • stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
  • fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
  • lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
  • abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
  • give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
  • miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
  • neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
  • pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
  • depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
  • leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
  • spend — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
  • question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
  • bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
  • forget — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
  • hold — 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.
  • retain — to keep possession of.
  • open — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
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