All crack down antonyms
crack down
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- 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.
- miss β to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- abandon β If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
- drop β a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- give up β the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- overlook β to fail to notice, perceive, or consider: to overlook a misspelled word.
- 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.
- permit β to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- liberate β to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- forsake β to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert: She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific.
- loosen β to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- mislead β to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- 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.
- promote β to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- free β enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- start β to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
- turn on β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- loose β free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- misguide β to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- leave β to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- create β To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
- persuade β to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- begin β To begin to do something means to start doing it.
- bear β If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
- refuse β to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- block β A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
- delay β If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
- deter β To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
- hinder β to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- impede β to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- obstruct β to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- leave alone β separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
- discourage β to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- halt β to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- cease β If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
- dissuade β to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- prevent β to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- disapprove β to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- ignore β to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- release β to lease again.
- repress β to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- disregard β to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- forego β forgo.
- 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.
- fail β to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- forget β to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.