All ease up antonyms
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E e verb ease up
- disperse β to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- scatter β to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
- annoy β If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- incite β to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- worry β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- distress β great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- intensify β to make intense or more intense.
- worsen β Make or become worse.
- disorganize β to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
- liberate β to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- permit β to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- increase β to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- vex β to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- release β to lease again.
- destroy β To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- disarrange β to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- ruin β 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.
- anger β Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
- arouse β If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- aggravate β If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
- irritate β to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- provoke β to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- trouble β to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- upset β to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- agitate β If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- 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.
- disturb β to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- move β to pass from one place or position to another.
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- confuse β If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- free β enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- continue β If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
- condemn β If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- punish β to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- grow β to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- blame β If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
- censure β If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
- accuse β If you accuse someone of doing something wrong or dishonest, you say or tell them that you believe that they did it.
- prolong β to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
- incriminate β to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
- sentence β Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- rise β to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- raise β to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
- develop β When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- strengthen β to make stronger; give strength to.
- approve β If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
- leave alone β separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
- advance β To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.