All occasion antonyms
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O o noun occasion
- misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- prevention — the act of preventing; effectual hindrance.
verb occasion
- destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- end — Come or bring to a final point; finish.
- fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
- halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- 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.
- stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.