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All intermit antonyms

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verb intermit

  • dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
  • 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.
  • benefit — The benefit of something is the help that you get from it or the advantage that results from it.
  • abet — 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'.
  • 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.
  • approve — If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
  • 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.
  • include — to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
  • persist — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
  • add — ADD is an abbreviation for attention deficit disorder.
  • accept — If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.
  • sustain — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
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