HINTS Antonyms

• direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short

• straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action

• in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child

• moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

• similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity

• (of a current) flowing in one direction only

• without deviation

• having no intervening persons, agents, conditions

• being an immediate result or consequence

• in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker

• lacking compromising or mitigating elements

• command with authority

• intend (something) to move towards a certain goal

• guide the actors in (plays and films)

• govern or manage

• take somebody somewhere

• cause to go somewhere

• point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards

• lead, as in the performance of a composition

• give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction

• specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

• direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

• put an address on (an envelope)

• plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• state emphatically and authoritatively

• announce publicly or officially

• state firmly

• declare to be

• authorize payments of

• designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand

• make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official

• proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• reveal to view as by removing a cover

• an object or statement produced before a court of law and referred to while giving evidence

• something shown to the public

• show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill

• to show, make visible or apparent

• give an exhibition of to an interested audience

• walk ostentatiously

• the exposure of an impostor or a fraud

• expose or make accessible to some action or influence

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• to show, make visible or apparent

• remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body

• reveal to view as by removing a cover

• put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

• expose to light, of photographic film

• expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas

• abandon by leaving out in the open air

• a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)

• express in words

• let something be known

• narrate or give a detailed account of

• give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

• discern or comprehend

• inform positively and with certainty and confidence

• give evidence

• mark as different

• remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body

• reveal to view as by removing a cover

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• remove the veil from

• make manifest

• remove the cover from