ADVANCE Antonyms

• the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence

• returning to a former state

• go back to a statistical means

• go back to a previous state

• get worse or fall back to a previous condition

• go back to bad behavior

• (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat

• a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet

• (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position

• (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset

• an area where you can be alone

• withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation

• the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)

• pull back or move away or backward

• move away, as for privacy

• move back

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• retrace one's course

• change toward something smaller or lower

• a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• a downward slope or bend

• grow worse

• not accept as true

• show unwillingness towards

• grow smaller

• go down

• fall in value

• inflect for number, gender, case, etc.

• a change downward

• a process of becoming smaller or shorter

• the amount by which something decreases

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• make become smaller

• to go back over again

• reassemble mentally

• pull back or move away or backward

• withdraw from active participation

• release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles

• cause to be returned

• take back what one has said

• keep away from others

• break from a meeting or gathering

• retire gracefully

• remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)

• lose interest

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

• belong to an earlier time

• return in thought or speech to something

• regain a former condition after a financial loss

• related to or located at the back

• the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine

• the side that goes last or is not normally seen

• the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer

• (football) a person who plays in the backfield

• the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

• the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book

• the part of a garment that covers the back of your body

• a support that you can lean against while sitting

• (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage

• in or to or toward a former location

• at or to or toward the back or rear

• in or to or toward an original condition

• in or to or toward a past time

• in reply

• in repayment or retaliation

• located at or near the back of an animal

• of an earlier date

• be behind; approve of

• travel backward

• give support or one's approval to

• cause to travel backward

• support financial backing for

• be in back of

• place a bet on

• shift to a counterclockwise direction

• establish as valid or genuine

• strengthen by providing with a back or backing

• an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

• the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)

• returning to a former state

• formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

• pull away from a source of disgust or fear

• use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

• pull inward or towards a center