All nig synonyms

verb nig

• recall — to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said?
• recede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• retrograde — moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
• sheathe — to put (a sword, dagger, etc.) into a sheath.
• suspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
• unsay — to withdraw (something said), as if it had never been said; retract.
• welsh — to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
• call off — If you call off an event that has been planned, you cancel it.
• change one's mind — to alter one's decision or opinion
• 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).
• eat one's words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
• fall back — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
• go back on — at, to, or toward the rear; backward: to step back.
• pull in — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
• retrocede — to go back; recede; retire.
• take in — the act of taking.
• cancel — If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
• revoke — to take back or withdraw; annul, cancel, or reverse; rescind or repeal: to revoke a decree.
• abolish — If someone in authority abolishes a system or practice, they formally put an end to it.
• abrogate — If someone in a position of authority abrogates something such as a law, agreement, or practice, they put an end to it.
• annul — If an election or a contract is annulled, it is declared invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed.
• invalidate — to render invalid; discredit.
• negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
• offset — something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
• quash — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
• repeal — to revoke or withdraw formally or officially: to repeal a grant.
• rescind — to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
• restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
• torpedo — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
• undo — to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done: Murder once done can never be undone.
• veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
• void — Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
• wipe out — an act of wiping: He gave a few quick wipes to the furniture.
• abate — If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
• annihilate — To annihilate something means to destroy it completely.
• ax — An ax is a tool used for cutting wood. It consists of a heavy metal blade that is sharp at one edge and attached by its other edge to the end of a long handle.
• compensate — To compensate someone for money or things that they have lost means to pay them money or give them something to replace that money or those things.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
• counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
• countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• neutralise — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
• neutralize — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
• renege — Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.
• scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
• scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
• squash — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.