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All beat around the bush antonyms

beat a·round the bush
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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.
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