All hit pay dirt antonyms

verb hit pay dirt

• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• lessen — to become less.
• spurn — to reject with disdain; scorn.
• 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.
• hesitate — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
• 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.
• 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.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• 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.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• 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.
• forfeit — a fine; penalty.
• follow — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
• give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
• mend — to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
• miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
• pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• smooth — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.