All hold off antonyms

verb hold off

• take in — the act of taking.
• validate — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
• prove — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
• 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.
• concede — If you concede something, you admit, often unwillingly, that it is true or correct.
• 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.
• consent — If you give your consent to something, you give someone permission to do it.
• offer — to present for acceptance or rejection; proffer: He offered me a cigarette.
• condemn — If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
• punish — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
• grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
• censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
• accuse — If you accuse someone of doing something wrong or dishonest, you say or tell them that you believe that they did it.
• intensify — to make intense or more intense.
• prolong — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
• incriminate — to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
• sentence — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
• incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
• rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
• raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
• develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
• strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• leave alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• magnify — to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
• aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
• 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.
• draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
• 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.
• 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?
• discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
• 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.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• desert — A desert is a large area of land, usually in a hot region, where there is almost no water, rain, trees, or plants.
• give in — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• comply — If someone or something complies with an order or set of rules, they are in accordance with what is required or expected.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• indulge — to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
• 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.
• 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.
• conform — If something conforms to something such as a law or someone's wishes, it is of the required type or quality.
• clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.