UNCLAMPS Antonyms

• cause to be attached

• be attached; be in contact with

• become attached

• create social or emotional ties

• take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

• a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder

• a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech

• the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key

• the act of moving with great haste

• a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length

• a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener

• a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)

• in a rigid manner

• directly

• move or jump suddenly

• secure or lock with a bolt

• swallow hastily

• run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

• leave suddenly and as if in a hurry

• eat hastily without proper chewing

• make or roll into bolts

• a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together

• fasten or fix with a clamp

• impose or inflict forcefully

• cause to be firmly attached

• become fixed or fastened

• attach to

• make tight or tighter

• informal terms for a difficult situation

• something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug

• the act of putting something in working order again

• an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear

• a determination of the place where something is

• restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

• cause to be firmly attached

• decide upon or fix definitely

• prepare for eating by applying heat

• take vengeance on or get even

• set or place definitely

• kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study

• make fixed, stable or stationary

• make infertile

• influence an event or its outcome by illegal means

• put (something somewhere) firmly

• make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

• to be about to do something

• the act of grasping

• the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it

• a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes

• the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)

• worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made

• an intellectual hold or understanding

• a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place

• hold fast or firmly

• to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match

• to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe

• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

• a strand or cluster of hair

• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it

• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

• fasten with a lock

• keep engaged

• become rigid or immoveable

• hold in a locking position

• become engaged or intermeshed with one another

• hold fast (in a certain state)

• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

• pass by means through a lock in a waterway

• build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

• free from fear or doubt; easy in mind

• free from danger or risk

• not likely to fail or give way

• immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

• financially safe

• get by special effort

• cause to be firmly attached

• assure payment of

• make certain of

• fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug

• furnish with battens

• make tight or tighter

• become tight or tighter

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• narrow or limit