All develop antonyms

verb develop

• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• retrogress — to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
• lessen — to become less.
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
• compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• narrow — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• stunt — to use in doing stunts: to stunt an airplane.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• abridge — to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
• condense — If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
• curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• shorten — to make short or shorter.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• maintain — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
• precede — to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance, or time.
• cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
• finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
• disagree — to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• wind — the act of winding.
• tangle — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
• complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
• mystify — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
• obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• lose — 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.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.