All make a pitch for antonyms

verb make a pitch for

• withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
• refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
• back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
• hesitate — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
• recede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• retrogress — to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• take back — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
• yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
• undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
• 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.
• handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
• frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
• thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• remain — to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
• pull — pull media
• leave alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
• continue — If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• secret — done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.
• dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.