All go against antonyms
go aΒ·gainst
G g verb go against
- 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.
- worsen β Make or become worse.
- 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.
- validate β to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- uphold β to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
- 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'.
- 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.
- 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.
- forward β toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- approve β If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- support β to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- surrender β to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
- concur β If one person concurs with another person, the two people agree. You can also say that two people concur.
- promote β to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- yield β to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
- agree β If people agree with each other about something, they have the same opinion about it or say that they have the same opinion.
- go along β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- advance β To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
- back up β If someone or something backs up a statement, they supply evidence to suggest that it is true.
- confirm β If something confirms what you believe, suspect, or fear, it shows that it is definitely true.
- give in β to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- retreat β the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
- give up β the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- make peace β the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- compromise β A compromise is a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of other people.
- run β execution
- avoid β If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
- dodge β to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- back down β If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
- refuse β to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- reject β to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- discontinue β to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- disallow β to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- hide β Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
- ignore β to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- shun β to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
- resist β to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
- disapprove β to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- veto β the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- hold β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- keep β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- leave β to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- halt β to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- withdraw β to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- back β If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
- laze β to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.