All lay down the law antonyms

verb lay down the law

• 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.
• liberate — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• 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.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
• 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.
• countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
• revoke — to take back or withdraw; annul, cancel, or reverse; rescind or repeal: to revoke a decree.
• allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
• approve — If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
• ask — If you ask someone something, you say something to them in the form of a question because you want to know the answer.
• 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.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
• 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.
• oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• recall — to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said?
• reverse — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
• follow — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• hesitate — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• implore — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
• request — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
• mismanage — Manage (something) badly or wrongly.
• dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
• disorder — lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
• scatter — to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• disarrange — to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
• disorganize — to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
• disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
• mix up — an act or instance of mixing.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• unsettle — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
• derange — to disturb the order or arrangement of; throw into disorder; disarrange
• comply — If someone or something complies with an order or set of rules, they are in accordance with what is required or expected.
• obey — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
• consent — If you give your consent to something, you give someone permission to do it.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
• remove — to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• change — If there is a change in something, it becomes different.
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.