All make for antonyms
make for
M m verb make for
- earn β to gain or get in return for one's labor or service: to earn one's living.
- reply β followup
- decide β If you decide to do something, you choose to do it, usually after you have thought carefully about the other possibilities.
- punish β to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- sentence β Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- answer β When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.
- request β 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.
- deny β When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
- ask β If you ask someone something, you say something to them in the form of a question because you want to know the answer.
- question β a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- deprive β If you deprive someone of something that they want or need, you take it away from them, or you prevent them from having it.
- penalize β to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- dissatisfy β to cause to be displeased, especially by failing to provide something expected or desired.
- seize β to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp: to seize a weapon.
- blame β If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
- condemn β If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- convict β If someone is convicted of a crime, they are found guilty of that crime in a law court.
- hold β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- miss β to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- increase β to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- intensify β to make intense or more intense.
- block β A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
- hinder β to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- obstruct β to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- aggravate β If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
- get sick β fall ill, become unwell
- wreck β any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- decline β If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
- kill β to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
- withhold β to hold back; restrain or check.
- steal β to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
- wrong β not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- confuse β If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- move β to pass from one place or position to another.
- remain β to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
- wait β to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
- create β To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
- surrender β to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
- face β the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- stay β (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- arrive β When a person or vehicle arrives at a place, they come to it at the end of a journey.
- come β When a person or thing comes to a particular place, especially to a place where you are, they move there.
- continue β If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- disagree β to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.
- mismatch β to match badly or unsuitably.
- destroy β To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- prevent β to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.