All mothering antonyms

verb mothering

• dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
• finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• 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.
• deplete — To deplete a stock or amount of something means to reduce it.
• lessen — to become less.
• conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• abort — If an unborn baby is aborted, the pregnancy is ended deliberately and the baby is not born alive.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
• disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
• dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
• hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• forget — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• 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.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• condemn — If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
• starve — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• result — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.