All forfend antonyms
forΒ·fend
F f verb forfend
- encourage β Give support, confidence, or hope to (someone).
- authorise β to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- favour β to regard with favor: to favor an enterprise.
- expedite β (transitive) To accelerate the progress of.
- aid β Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- assist β If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- facilitate β to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- permit β to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- hearten β to give courage or confidence to; cheer.
- calm β A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
- comfort β If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
- incite β to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- heat β the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- warm β having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- instigate β to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.
- persuade β to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- stimulate β to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- urge β to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
- advance β To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
- 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.
- forward β toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- help β to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- promote β to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- push β to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- inspirit β to infuse spirit or life into; enliven.
- support β to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- put on to β put in touch with
- turn on β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- include β to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- welcome β a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- release β to lease again.
- sanction β authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- add β ADD is an abbreviation for attention deficit disorder.
- approve β If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
- continue β If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
- go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- admit β If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true.
- free β enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- authorize β If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
- liberate β to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- abet β If one person abets another, they help or encourage them to do something criminal or wrong. Abet is often used in the legal expression 'aid and abet'.
- cause β 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?
- open β not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- favor β something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- accept β If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.
- keep β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- unblock β to remove a block or obstruction from: to unblock a channel; to unblock a person's credit.