All backwater antonyms
back·wa·ter
B b verb backwater
- legalise — to make legal; authorize.
- permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- sanction — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- validate — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- institute — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
- legalize — to make legal; authorize.
- ratify — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- uphold — to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
- allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
- support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- approve — If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
- keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- facilitate — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- further — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- prolong — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
- lengthen — to make longer; make greater in length.
- release — to lease again.
- liberate — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- accelerate — If the process or rate of something accelerates or if something accelerates it, it gets faster and faster.
- advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
- forward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
- strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
- develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- do — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
noun backwater
- metropolis — any large, busy city.