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All originate antonyms

o·rig·i·nate
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verb originate

  • finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
  • cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
  • decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
  • complete — You use complete to emphasize that something is as great in extent, degree, or amount as it possibly can be.
  • destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
  • end — Come or bring to a final point; finish.
  • recede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
  • halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
  • stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
  • effect — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
  • result — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
  • kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
  • terminate — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
  • ruinruins, 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.
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