MAINTAIN Antonyms

• lack of attention and due care

• willful lack of care and attention

• refuse to acknowledge

• bar from attention or consideration

• give little or no attention to

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

• refuse to acknowledge

• bar from attention or consideration

• fail to notice

• give little or no attention to

• be ignorant of or in the dark about

• lack of attention and due care

• the state of something that has been unused and neglected

• willful lack of care and attention

• the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern

• failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances

• leave undone or leave out

• fail to do something; leave something undone

• fail to attend to

• give little or no attention to

• merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)

• the act of liberating someone or something

• a process that liberates or discharges something

• an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation

• the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

• euphemistic expressions for death

• a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation

• a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism

• activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion

• the act of allowing a fluid to escape

• a formal written statement of relinquishment

• (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone

• release, as from one's grip

• grant freedom to; free from confinement

• let (something) fall or spill from a container

• prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

• eliminate (a substance)

• generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids

• make (information) available for publication

• part with a possession or right

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

• make (assets) available

• part with a possession or right

• do without or cease to hold or adhere to

• turn away from; give up

• release, as from one's grip

• acceptance of despair

• a verbal act of admitting defeat

• the delivery of a principal into lawful custody

• the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)

• give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another

• relinquish possession or control over

• production of a certain amount

• the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

• an amount of a product

• the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)

• be the cause or source of

• end resistance, as under pressure or force

• give or supply

• give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

• give in, as to influence or pressure

• move in order to make room for someone for something

• cause to happen or be responsible for

• be willing to concede

• be fatally overwhelmed

• bring in

• be flexible under stress of physical force

• cease opposition; stop fighting

• consent reluctantly

• lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime

• give up with the intent of never claiming again

• give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat

• put an end to a state or an activity

• give up what is not strictly needed

• part with a possession or right

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

• relinquish possession or control over

• give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another

• stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims

• allow the other (baseball) team to score

• stop consuming