BENCHES Antonyms

• a long wooden bench with a back

• settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground

• bring to an end; settle conclusively

• settle conclusively; come to terms

• take up residence and become established

• come to terms

• go under

• become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style

• become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet

• establish or develop as a residence

• come to rest

• arrange or fix in the desired order

• accept despite lack of complete satisfaction

• end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement

• dispose of; make a financial settlement

• become clear by the sinking of particles

• cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)

• sink down or precipitate

• fix firmly

• get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury

• make final; put the last touches on; put into final form

• form a community

• come as if by falling

• a seat for one person, with a support for the back

• the position of professor

• the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

• an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person

• a particular seat in an orchestra

• act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university

• preside over

• an upholstered seat for more than one person

• a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer

• a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment

• formulate in a particular style or language

• a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall)

• a Muslim council of state

• a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author)

• a Muslim council chamber or law court

• of or relating to the Ottoman Empire or its people or its culture

• thick cushion used as a seat

• a Turk (especially a Turk who is a member of the tribe of Osman I)

• a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person

• the Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century to its dissolution after World War I

• long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation

• an upholstered seat for more than one person

• a simple seat without a back or arms

• solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

• (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

• a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

• lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

• react to a decoy, of wildfowl

• grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

• have a bowel movement

• the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.

• a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

• the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions

• sit on the throne as a ruler

• put a monarch on the throne