All lock up antonyms
lock up
L l verb lock up
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- neglect β to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- include β to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- welcome β a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- facilitate β to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- sanction β authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- add β ADD is an abbreviation for attention deficit disorder.
- approve β If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
- continue β If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
- go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- admit β If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true.
- advance β To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
- forward β toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- push β to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- support β to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- authorize β If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
- disallow β to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- refuse β to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- avoid β If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
- repress β to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- overtake β to catch up with in traveling or pursuit; draw even with: By taking a cab to the next town, we managed to overtake and board the train.
- overthrow β to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish: to overthrow a tyrant.
- give in β to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- misconstrue β to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- dissuade β to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- calm β A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
- soothe β 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.
- repel β to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- repulse β to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
- offer β to present for acceptance or rejection; proffer: He offered me a cigarette.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- drop β a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- abandon β 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.
- depart β When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
- leave β to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- mismanage β Manage (something) badly or wrongly.
- discourage β to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- please β (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?
- understand β to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
- lack β something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.