COLONISING Antonyms

• the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery)

• the act of liberating someone or something

• emotionally purging (of e.g. art)

• a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.

• the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc.

• an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done)

• loosening the ties that fasten something

• the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry

• a feeling of extreme emotional intensity

• forsake, leave behind

• give up with the intent of never claiming again

• leave behind empty; move out of

• stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• grant independence to (a former colony)

• release from entanglement of difficulty

• extricate from entanglement

• free from involvement or entanglement

• separate the tangles of

• smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

• To set free from thraldom or oppression.

• give equal rights to; of women and minorities

• free from slavery or servitude

• give equal rights to; of women and minorities

• grant freedom to; free from confinement

• grant freedom to

• release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

• the act of upsetting something

• an improbable and unexpected victory

• turn from an upright or normal position

• cause to overturn from an upright or normal position

• rule against

• cause the downfall of; of rulers

• cancel officially

• change radically

• give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

• leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily

• turn away from; give up

• cast off

• To undo by removing a tether.

• remove the yoke from

• grant independence to (a former colony)