All promote antonyms

verb promote

• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• disconfirm — to prove to be invalid.
• indispose — to make ill, especially slightly.
• make with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
• hamper — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
• expulse — To expel.
• damn — Damn, damn it, and dammit are used by some people to express anger or impatience.
• boxed in — simple past tense and past participle of box in.
• downing — a downward movement; descent.
• hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• disbar — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
• bogged — wet, spongy ground with soil composed mainly of decayed vegetable matter.
• disrate — to reduce to a lower rating or rank.
• frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
• dismiss — to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go: I dismissed the class early.
• avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• chime in — If you chime in, you say something just after someone else has spoken.
• 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.
• bitted — Also called bollard. a strong post of wood or iron projecting, usually in pairs, above the deck of a ship, used for securing cables, lines for towing, etc.
• disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
• gimp — a limp.
• bogging — filthy; covered in dirt and grime
• damping — moistening or wetting
• disbarred — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
• give it to — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• chasten — If you are chastened by something, it makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.
• gimped — a limp.
• defer — If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
• chastise — If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.
• disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• intermeddle — to take part in a matter, especially officiously; meddle.
• lade — to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
• call down — to request or invoke
• gimping — a limp.
• bitting — Also called bollard. a strong post of wood or iron projecting, usually in pairs, above the deck of a ship, used for securing cables, lines for towing, etc.
• denunciate — to condemn; denounce
• drat — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
• baulk — the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
• intermediating — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
• drats — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
• come to an end — to become completed or exhausted
• intermeddling — Present participle of intermeddle.
• denunciated — Simple past tense and past participle of denunciate.
• dratted — damned; confounded (used as a mild oath): This dratted car won't start.
• freeze out — the act of freezing; state of being frozen.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.