ONRUSH Antonyms

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of

• become smaller or lose substance

• a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

• the outward flow of the tide

• flow back or recede

• hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb

• fall away or decline

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• make become smaller

• wear off or die down

• pull back or move away or backward

• retreat

• become faint or more distant

• (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat

• a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet

• (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position

• (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset

• an area where you can be alone

• withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation

• the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)

• pull back or move away or backward

• move away, as for privacy

• move back

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time

• at a slow tempo

• (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time

• without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')

• showing a time that is earlier than the actual time

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

• (of business) not active or brisk

• lose velocity; move more slowly

• become slow or slower

• cause to proceed more slowly

• a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

• grow smaller

• become smaller

• decrease in phase