All dig antonyms
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- compliment — A compliment is a polite remark that you say to someone to show that you like their appearance, appreciate their qualities, or approve of what they have done.
- praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- flattery — the act of flattering.
verb dig
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
- misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
- bury — To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth.
- withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
- fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
- 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.).
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- scorn — open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
- disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
- 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.