ANT. Embolden, cheer, encourage, animate, uphold, rally, countenance, inspirit, abet, incite, buoy.
Abate. Lessen, lower, reduce, diminish, moderate, decrease, decline, ebb, mitigate, subside, suppress, terminate, remove; temper, assuage, alleviate, appease, pacify; remit, allow; relax, slacken; bate, deduct; soothe, soften, qualify, allay, mollify, compose, tranquilize, quiet, quell, calm, dull, blunt; batter down, beat down, demolish, raze.
ANT. Increase, prolong, magnify, foment, enlarge, extend, aggravate, continue, develop, revive, raise, enhance, amplify.
Abatement. Subsidence, decline, lowering, reduction, decrease; allowance, discount, rebate, depreciation, drawback; moderation, lessening, mitigation, assuagement, remission, sinking, settling, waning, fading, ebb, evanishment, declension, deduction, diminution.
ANT. Increase, augmentation, enlargement, increment, accretion, development, growth, aggrandizement, dilation, accession.
Abbreviate. Shorten, contract, curtail, reduce, abridge, condense, epitomize, compress.
ANT. Lengthen, extend,, elongate, dilate, expand, amplify, enlarge, produce, stretch, prolong, expatiate.
Abbreviation. Abridgment, contraction, condensation, compend, abstract, epitome, reduction, summary, curtailment, compression.
ANT. Expansion, amplification, expatiation, extension, production, enlargement, dilation.
Abdicate. Resign, relinquish office (especially of the throne), surrender, abandon, vacate, forego, renounce, give up, cede.
ANT. Retain, claim, occupy, maintain, usurp, seize, grasp.
Abdomen. Belly, paunch, ventral region, visceral cavity.
Abduct. Take away (surreptitiously or forcibly) , kidnap, run away with, carry off, spirit away, drag away.
ANT. Restore, reinstate, adduct.
Abduction. Withdrawal, drawing away, abstraction, kidnapping, seizure, appropriation.
ANT. Adduction, replacement, restitution, restoration, surrender, reinstatement.
Aberrant. Wandering, rambling, divergent, deviating, devious, erratic ; irregular, abnormal, unusual, exceptional.
ANT. Regular, true, consistent, uniform, consecutive, normal, natural, continuous.
Aberration. Wandering, divergence, irregularity, rambling, disconnectedness, hallucination, illusion, delusion, eccentricity, singularity, peculiarity.
ANT. Uniformity, consecutiveness, regularity, progression, continuity, order, type, norm.
Abet. Aid, assist, promote, support, sanction, uphold, countenance, encourage, advocate, incite, instigate, embolden, favor, foment, connive at, cooperate with.
ANT. Hinder, impede, obstruct, frustrate, baffle, confound, counteract, deter, discourage, thwart, contradict, disconcert, disapprove, denounce, dissuade, expose.
Abettor. Assistant, helper, aid, ally, cooperator, advocate, confederate, accomplice, accessory,
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