All dedicate antonyms
ded·i·cate
D d verb dedicate
- withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
- refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- misapply — to make a wrong application or use of.
- misuse — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
- alienate — If you alienate someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you.
- desecrate — If someone desecrates something which is considered to be holy or very special, they deliberately damage or insult it.
- 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.
- steal — to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
- take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.