All catapulted antonyms
cat·a·pult
C c verb catapulted
- leave alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
- hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- receive — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
- catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
- finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
- stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
- conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
- withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
- backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
- 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.
- bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
- fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- lessen — to become less.
- lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
- descend — If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level.
- destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- raze — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- pull — pull media
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- collect — If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people.
- gather — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- 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.