All make headway antonyms

verb make headway

• quit — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
• abbreviate — If you abbreviate something, especially a word or a piece of writing, you make it shorter.
• move — to pass from one place or position to another.
• finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
• wait — 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.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• mismanage — Manage (something) badly or wrongly.
• lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• back up — If someone or something backs up a statement, they supply evidence to suggest that it is true.
• walk — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
• remain — to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
• land — Edwin Herbert, 1909–91, U.S. inventor and businessman: created the Polaroid camera.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• 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.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• hold — 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.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• 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.
• deteriorate — If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
• worsen — Make or become worse.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
• go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
• condemn — If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
• shorten — to make short or shorter.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• complete — You use complete to emphasize that something is as great in extent, degree, or amount as it possibly can be.
• desist — If you desist from doing something, you stop doing it.