All mothball synonyms

verb mothball

• perpetuate — to make perpetual.
• protect — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
• save — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
• secure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
• uphold — to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
• defend — If you defend someone or something, you take action in order to protect them.
• freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• sustain — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
• retain — to keep possession of.
• safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
• conserve — If you conserve a supply of something, you use it carefully so that it lasts for a long time.
• store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
• suspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
• waive — to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
• prolong — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
• put off — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• hoard — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• stash — to put by or away as for safekeeping or future use, usually in a secret place (usually followed by away): The squirrel stashes away nuts for winter.
• accumulate — When you accumulate things or when they accumulate, they collect or are gathered over a period of time.
• stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
• deposit — A deposit is a sum of money which is part of the full price of something, and which you pay when you agree to buy it.
• put — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• bury — To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth.
• pack — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
• refrigerate — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
• shield — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
• shelter — something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
• season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
• mummify — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
• process — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
• guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
• cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
• can — You use can when you are mentioning a quality or fact about something which people may make use of if they want to.
• bottle — A bottle is a glass or plastic container in which drinks and other liquids are kept. Bottles are usually round with straight sides and a narrow top.
• pickle — a single grain or kernel, as of barley or corn.
• dismiss — to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go: I dismissed the class early.
• scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
• drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• pigeonhole — one of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters, etc.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• 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.
• sideline — a line at the side of something.
• table — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
• 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.
• prorogue — to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
• amass — If you amass something such as money or information, you gradually get a lot of it.
• bin — A bin is a container that you put rubbish in.