All buffaloing antonyms
bufΒ·faΒ·lo
B b verb buffaloing
- comfort β If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
- soothe β 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.
- abet β 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'.
- aid β Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- assist β If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- clear up β When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
- help β 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.
- clarify β To clarify something means to make it easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail.
- relieve β to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- support β to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- alleviate β If you alleviate pain, suffering, or an unpleasant condition, you make it less intense or severe.
- delight β Delight is a feeling of very great pleasure.
- please β (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?
- boost β If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
- allow β If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
- leave alone β separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
- hearten β to give courage or confidence to; cheer.
- calm β A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
- incite β to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- gladden β to make glad.
- inspirit β to infuse spirit or life into; enliven.
- protect β to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- release β to lease again.
- give β to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- offer β to present for acceptance or rejection; proffer: He offered me a cigarette.
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- facilitate β to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- placate β to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- liberate β to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- surrender β 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.
- forward β toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- face β the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- meet β greatest lower bound
- lose β 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.
- overtake β to catch up with in traveling or pursuit; draw even with: By taking a cab to the next town, we managed to overtake and board the train.
- overthrow β to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish: to overthrow a tyrant.
- give in β to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- misconstrue β to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- misunderstand β to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
- dissuade β to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- order β an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- fail β to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- miss β to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- pass β to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- yield β to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
- depart β When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
- leave β to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- mismanage β Manage (something) badly or wrongly.
- discourage β to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- understand β to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.