All buttonholing antonyms

verb buttonholing

• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• slight — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
• refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
• avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• scorn — open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
• shun — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
• 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.
• turn away — move further from sth, sb
• assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
• 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?
• leave alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
• liberate — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
• facilitate — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
• permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
• release — to lease again.
• free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
• 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.
• push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• offer — to present for acceptance or rejection; proffer: He offered me a cigarette.
• dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
• comfort — If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
• delight — Delight is a feeling of very great pleasure.
• 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.
• gladden — to make glad.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• answer — When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.
• cheer — When people cheer, they shout loudly to show their approval or to encourage someone who is doing something such as taking part in a game.
• pull — pull media