All bestir antonyms

verb bestir

• slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
• wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
• dally — If you dally, you act or move very slowly, wasting time.
• 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.
• rest — a support for a lance; lance rest.
• decelerate — When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
• walk — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• dawdle — If you dawdle, you spend more time than is necessary going somewhere.
• stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
• blunt — If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
• soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• dampen — To dampen something such as someone's enthusiasm or excitement means to make it less lively or intense.
• put out — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
• turn off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
• dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• deaden — If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• demote — If someone demotes you, they give you a lower rank or a less important position than you already have, often as a punishment.
• delight — Delight is a feeling of very great pleasure.
• depress — If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
• 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.
• bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
• please — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
• damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
• disorganize — to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
• disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
• scatter — to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
• regress — to move backward; go back.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
• separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
• distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.