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All make use of antonyms

make use of
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verb make use of

  • reject β€” to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
  • repudiate β€” to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • release β€” to lease again.
  • disbelieve β€” to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
  • distrust β€” to regard with doubt or suspicion; have no trust in.
  • shun β€” to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
  • turn away β€” move further from sth, sb
  • let go β€” to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • free β€” enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • misuse β€” wrong or improper use; misapplication.
  • leave alone β€” separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
  • refuse β€” to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
  • dismiss β€” to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go: I dismissed the class early.
  • fire β€” combustion
  • lose β€” 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.
  • cancel β€” If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
  • keep β€” to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • discharge β€” to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • lay off β€” to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • forfeit β€” a fine; penalty.
  • misunderstand β€” to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
  • disperse β€” to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
  • scatter β€” to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
  • squander β€” to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
  • 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.
  • harm β€” a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
  • forsake β€” to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert: She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific.
  • sacrifice β€” the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
  • give β€” to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • offer β€” to present for acceptance or rejection; proffer: He offered me a cigarette.
  • give up β€” the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
  • fail β€” to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
  • miss β€” to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
  • spend β€” to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
  • throw away β€” to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • plant β€” any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • distribute β€” to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
  • divide β€” to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
  • waste β€” to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
  • yield β€” to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
  • hurt β€” to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
  • abstain β€” If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
  • ignore β€” to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • avoid β€” If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
  • dodge β€” to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
  • 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.
  • stay β€” (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
  • halt β€” to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
  • stop β€” to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
  • cease β€” If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
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