All beat around the bush antonyms
beat a·round the bush
B b verb beat around the bush
- 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.
- abet — If one person abets another, they help or encourage them to do something criminal or wrong. Abet is often used in the legal expression 'aid and abet'.
- attract — If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it.
- confront — If you are confronted with a problem, task, or difficulty, you have to deal with it.
- invite — to request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous, or complimentary way, especially to request to come or go to some place, gathering, entertainment, etc., or to do something: to invite friends to dinner.
- face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- meet — greatest lower bound
- clarify — To clarify something means to make it easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail.
- clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
- 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.
- support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- take on — 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.
- release — to lease again.
- order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- plod — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
- permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
- further — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
- allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
- forward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- promote — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- continue — If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
- go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- do — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.