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All lock up antonyms

lock up
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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.
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