All make bold antonyms

verb make bold

• abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
• disbelieve — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
• protect — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• 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.
• design — When someone designs a garment, building, machine, or other object, they plan it and make a detailed drawing of it from which it can be built or made.
• plan — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
• save — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.