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All bring home antonyms

bring home
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verb bring home

  • forfeit — a fine; penalty.
  • surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
  • dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
  • give in — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • 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.
  • fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
  • miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
  • pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
  • 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.
  • discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
  • give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • spend — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
  • neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
  • cost — The cost of something is the amount of money that is needed in order to buy, do, or make it.
  • throw away — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • miscommunicate — (ambitransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
  • conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
  • hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
  • obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
  • complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
  • cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
  • confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
  • save — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
  • destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
  • unsettle — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
  • halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
  • take apart — into pieces or parts; to pieces: to take a watch apart; an old barn falling apart from decay.
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