All hold off antonyms

verb hold off

• clarify — To clarify something means to make it easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail.
• decide — If you decide to do something, you choose to do it, usually after you have thought carefully about the other possibilities.
• vote — a formal expression of opinion or choice, either positive or negative, made by an individual or body of individuals.
• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
• claim — If you say that someone claims that something is true, you mean they say that it is true but you are not sure whether or not they are telling the truth.
• take — 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.
• retain — to keep possession of.
• disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• loosen — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
• unfasten — to release from or as from fastenings; detach.
• 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.
• unblock — to remove a block or obstruction from: to unblock a channel; to unblock a person's credit.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• reveal — to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
• hasten — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
• hurry — to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.
• carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
• convene — If someone convenes a meeting or conference, they arrange for it to take place. You can also say that people convene or that a meeting convenes.
• convoke — to call (a meeting, assembly, etc) together; summon
• further — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
• stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
• urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
• advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
• forward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
• continue — If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
• do — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
• begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.
• keep on — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• open — 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.
• rally — to ridicule in a good-natured way; banter.
• permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
• face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
• meet — greatest lower bound
• allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
• help — 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.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• take on — 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.
• seek — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• straighten — make straight
• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
• facilitate — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
• calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
• comfort — If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
• hearten — to give courage or confidence to; cheer.
• inspire — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.