All prolong antonyms

verb prolong

• cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
• fade out — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
• hang loose — to let loose; free from bonds or restraint.
• ebb — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
• mellow out — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
• die — When people, animals, and plants die, they stop living.
• miniaturize — to make in extremely small size in order to keep volume or weight to a minimum: to miniaturize electronic equipment.
• be-little — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• minify — to make less.
• amnestied — a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• go bad — not good in any manner or degree.
• minimize — to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
• fall away — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
• downs — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• hold off — 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.
• qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
• ease off — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
• nutshell — the shell of a nut.
• offed — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
• boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
• cut rate — a price, fare, or rate below the standard charge.
• moderate — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
• fagged out — exhausted
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• go downhill — travel down a slope
• lessen — to become less.
• level off — a device used for determining or adjusting something to a horizontal surface.
• ease up — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
• laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
• intermit — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• downsize — company: make redundancies
• knock down — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
• embog — (transitive) To bog down.
• back water — to reverse the direction of a boat, esp to push the oars of a rowing boat to slow it down or stop it
• make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
• backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
• draw in — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
• lull — to put to sleep or rest by soothing means: to lull a child by singing.
• miniaturise — (British) alternative spelling of miniaturize.
• give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
• intermitted — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
• dulling — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• mark down — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
• miniaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturize.
• bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.