BECKONS Antonyms

• try to prevent; show opposition to

• deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged

• advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior

• turn away from by persuasion

• command against

• keep from happening or arising; make impossible

• cause to move back by force or influence

• be repellent to; cause aversion in

• force or drive back

• reject outright and bluntly

• fill with distaste

• an instance of driving away or warding off

• force or drive back

• be repellent to; cause aversion in

• cause to move back by force or influence

• force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

• prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off

• push out of the way