All permit antonyms

verb permit

• dropkick — (football) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
• caulk — If you caulk something such as a boat, you fill small cracks in its surface in order to prevent it from leaking.
• counterplot — a plot designed to frustrate another plot
• overbalance — to outweigh: The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
• cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
• censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
• outplace — to provide outplacement for.
• bind — If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
• fly in the face of — to move through the air using wings.
• cool off — If someone or something cools off, or if you cool them off, they become cooler after having been hot.
• blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
• counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
• 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.
• interned — to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
• 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.
• beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
• blow sky-high — to destroy completely
• make amends — reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
• caulking — to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
• drum out — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
• call on the carpet — (chiefly US) To reprimand; to censure severely or angrily.
• disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
• mow down — to cut down (grass, grain, etc.) with a scythe or a machine.
• cry down — to belittle; disparage
• hold up — 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.
• backlashed — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
• overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
• disconfirming — Not confirming.
• backlashing — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
• cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
• brake — Brakes are devices in a vehicle that make it go slower or stop.
• head up — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
• blow the lid off — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
• cinching — a strong girth used on stock saddles, having a ring at each end to which a strap running from the saddle is secured.
• diking — an embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river: They built a temporary dike of sandbags to keep the river from flooding the town.
• goes around — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
• hards — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• interning — to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
• disadvise — (transitive) To advise against; to dissuade from.
• manacling — Present participle of manacle.
• blow the whistle on — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
• carry off — If you carry something off, you do it successfully.
• quash — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
• disannul — to annul utterly; make void: to disannul a contract.
• get the better of — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
• filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
• gridlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.
• dummy up — a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance: a display of lipstick dummies made of colored plastic.