All ballyhooed antonyms

verb ballyhooed

• dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
• refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
• back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
• hesitate — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
• recede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• retrogress — to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• take back — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
• 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.
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
• disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
• secrete — a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• secret — done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• 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.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
• frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• protest — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
• harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
• condemn — If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.