All enthuse antonyms

verb enthuse

• bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
• calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
• comfort — If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
• compose — The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
• deaden — If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
• depress — If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• pacify — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
• quiet — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
• delight — Delight is a feeling of very great pleasure.
• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
• dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
• please — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• hire — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
• trickle — to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream: Tears trickled down her cheeks.
• bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
• create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• leave alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
• 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.
• miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• take apart — into pieces or parts; to pieces: to take a watch apart; an old barn falling apart from decay.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• put out — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
• demote — If someone demotes you, they give you a lower rank or a less important position than you already have, often as a punishment.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
• dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
• 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.
• end — Come or bring to a final point; finish.
• denounce — If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
• displease — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
• offend — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
• repel — to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
• repulse — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
• turn off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• receive — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
• bring down — When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.