All lap up antonyms

verb lap up

• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
• contradict — If you contradict someone, you say that what they have just said is wrong, or suggest that it is wrong by saying something different.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• disprove — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
• invalidate — to render invalid; discredit.
• dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
• object — anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• differ — to be unlike, dissimilar, or distinct in nature or qualities (often followed by from): The two writers differ greatly in their perceptions of the world. Each writer's style differs from that of another.
• disbelieve — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
• distrust — to regard with doubt or suspicion; have no trust in.
• 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.
• dismiss — to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go: I dismissed the class early.
• forget — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• respect — a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in): to differ in some respect.
• censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
• forbid — to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place: to forbid him entry to the house.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• attend — If you attend a meeting or other event, you are present at it.
• regard — to look upon or think of with a particular feeling: to regard a person with favor.
• refute — to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
• annul — If an election or a contract is annulled, it is declared invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed.
• discredit — to injure the credit or reputation of; defame: an effort to discredit honest politicians.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• cancel — If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
• void — Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
• mistrust — lack of trust or confidence; distrust.
• release — to lease again.
• forsake — to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert: She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• desert — A desert is a large area of land, usually in a hot region, where there is almost no water, rain, trees, or plants.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• quit — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
• hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
• disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
• disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.