All go to town antonyms

verb go to town

• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
• forego — forgo.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
• hesitate — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
• refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• idle — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
• miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
• forget — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• quit — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
• leave alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
• follow — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
• recede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• retrogress — to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• take back — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• hold — 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 — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
• yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
• surrender — 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.
• 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.
• fall behind — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
• shrivel — shrink, dry up
• wither — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
• languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.