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Took Care Of Business Antonyms

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abandon
  • disregard
  • freedom
  • impulse
  • licentiousness
  • recklessness
  • spontaneity
  • thoughtlessness
  • uninhibitedness
  • unrestraint
  • wantonness
  • wildness
abstain
  • abjure
  • abnegate
  • avoid
  • cease
  • constrain
  • curb
  • decline
  • deny oneself
  • do without
  • eschew
  • evade
  • fast
  • fence-sit
  • forbear
  • forgo
  • give the go by
  • give up
  • go on the wagon
  • keep from
  • pass
  • pass up
  • quit
begin
  • activate
  • actualize
  • break ground
  • break the ice
  • bring about
  • bring to pass
  • cause
  • commence
  • create
  • do
  • drive
  • effect
  • embark on
  • enter on
  • enter upon
  • establish
  • eventuate
  • found
  • generate
  • get going
  • give birth to
  • give impulse
commence
  • arise
  • begin
  • come into being
  • come into existence
  • embark on
  • enter upon
  • get cracking
  • get going
  • get one's feet wet
  • get show on road
  • hit the ground running
  • inaugurate
  • initiate
  • jump into
  • kick off
  • launch
  • lead off
  • open
  • originate
  • start the ball rolling
  • take up
  • tear into
create
  • actualize
  • author
  • beget
  • bring into being
  • bring into existence
  • bring to pass
  • build
  • cause to be
  • coin
  • compose
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • constitute
  • construct
  • contrive
  • design
  • devise
  • discover
  • dream up
  • effect
  • erect
  • establish
defer
  • adjourn
  • block
  • delay
  • detain
  • extend
  • give rain check
  • hang fire
  • hinder
  • hold up
  • impede
  • intermit
  • lay over
  • lengthen
  • obstruct
  • postpone
  • procrastinate
  • prolong
  • prorogue
  • protract
  • put on back burner
  • put on hold
  • put on ice
destroy
  • abort
  • annihilate
  • annul
  • axe
  • blot out
  • break down
  • butcher
  • consume
  • cream
  • crush
  • damage
  • deface
  • desolate
  • despoil
  • dismantle
  • dispatch
  • end
  • eradicate
  • erase
  • exterminate
  • extinguish
  • extirpate
disarrange
  • derange
  • discompose
  • disturb
  • get out of order
  • jumble
  • mess
  • mix up
  • ruffle
  • scramble
  • shuffle
  • unsettle
  • untidy
discourage
  • abash
  • afflict
  • alarm
  • appall
  • awe
  • beat down
  • bother
  • break one's heart
  • bully
  • cast down
  • chill
  • confuse
  • cow
  • dampen
  • dash
  • daunt
  • deject
  • demoralize
  • deprecate
  • depress
  • dismay
  • disparage
disorder
  • anarchy
  • ataxia
  • confusion
  • derangement
  • disarrangement
  • disarray
  • discombobulation
  • disorderliness
  • disorganization
  • huddle
  • irregularity
  • jumble
  • mess
  • muddle
  • rat's nest
  • shambles
  • snarl
  • topsyturviness
  • untidiness
disorganize
  • break down
  • break up
  • clutter
  • complicate
  • confound
  • confuse
  • demobilize
  • derange
  • destroy
  • disarrange
  • disarray
  • disband
  • discompose
  • discreate
  • dishevel
  • dislocate
  • disorder
  • disperse
  • disturb
  • embroil
  • jumble
  • litter
dissuade
  • advise against
  • caution against
  • chicken out
  • counsel
  • cry out against
  • deprecate
  • derail
  • deter
  • disadvise
  • discourage
  • disincline
  • divert
  • exhort
  • expostulate
  • faze
  • hinder
  • lean on
  • persuade not to
  • prevent
  • prick
  • put off
  • remonstrate
disturb
  • afflict
  • agitate
  • ail
  • alarm
  • amaze
  • annoy
  • arouse
  • astound
  • badger
  • burn up
  • complicate
  • confound
  • confuse
  • depress
  • discompose
  • dishearten
  • disrupt
  • distract
  • distress
  • excite
  • fluster
  • frighten
fail
  • abort
  • back wrong horse
  • backslide
  • be defeated
  • be demoted
  • be found lacking
  • be in vain
  • be ruined
  • blunder
  • break down
  • come to naught
  • come to nothing
  • decline
  • deteriorate
  • fall
  • fall flat
  • fall short
  • fall through
  • fizzle
  • flop
  • flounder
  • fold
forget
  • blow
  • clean forget
  • consign to oblivion
  • dismiss from mind
  • disremember
  • draw a blank
  • escape one's memory
  • fail to remember
  • let slip from memory
  • lose consciousness of
  • lose sight of
  • misrecollect
  • obliterate
  • think no more of
halt
  • arrest
  • break
  • break-off
  • close
  • cutoff
  • freeze
  • grinding halt
  • impasse
  • interruption
  • layoff
  • letup
  • pause
  • screaming halt
  • screeching halt
  • stand
  • standstill
  • stop
  • termination
hesitate
  • alternate
  • balance
  • balk
  • be irresolute
  • be reluctant
  • be unwilling
  • blow hot and cold
  • dally
  • debate
  • defer
  • delay
  • demur
  • dillydally
  • dither
  • doubt
  • equivocate
  • falter
  • flounder
  • fluctuate
  • fumble
  • hang
  • hang back
idle
  • abortive
  • bootless
  • empty
  • frivolous
  • fruitless
  • futile
  • groundless
  • hollow
  • insignificant
  • irrelevant
  • not serious
  • nugatory
  • of no avail
  • otiose
  • pointless
  • rambling
  • superficial
  • trivial
  • unavailing
  • unhelpful
  • unnecessary
  • unproductive
ignore
  • avoid
  • be oblivious to
  • blink
  • brush off
  • bury one's head in sand
  • cold-shoulder
  • discount
  • disdain
  • evade
  • fail
  • forget
  • let it go
  • look the other way
  • neglect
  • omit
  • overlook
  • overpass
  • pass over
  • pay no attention to
  • pay no mind
  • pooh-pooh
  • reject
introduce
  • acquaint
  • advance
  • air
  • announce
  • bring out
  • bring up
  • broach
  • come out with
  • do the honors
  • familiarize
  • fix up
  • get things rolling
  • get together
  • give introduction
  • harbinger
  • herald
  • kick off
  • knock down
  • lead into
  • lead off
  • moot
  • offer
lose
  • be careless
  • be impoverished
  • be reduced
  • become poorer
  • bereave
  • capitulate
  • consume
  • default
  • deplete
  • disinherit
  • displace
  • dispossess
  • dissipate
  • divest
  • drain
  • drop
  • exhaust
  • expend
  • fail
  • fail to keep
  • fall short
  • forfeit
miss
  • absence
  • blunder
  • default
  • defect
  • error
  • fault
  • loss
  • mishap
  • mistake
  • omission
  • oversight
  • slip
  • want
neglect
  • carelessness
  • coolness
  • delinquency
  • disdain
  • disregardance
  • disrespect
  • heedlessness
  • inadvertence
  • inattention
  • inconsideration
  • indifference
  • laxity
  • laxness
  • oversight
  • scorn
  • slight
  • thoughtlessness
  • unconcern
pass
  • canyon
  • cut
  • gap
  • gorge
  • passage
  • passageway
  • path
  • ravine
prevent
  • anticipate
  • arrest
  • avert
  • avoid
  • baffle
  • balk
  • bar
  • block
  • check
  • chill
  • cool
  • cork
  • counter
  • counteract
  • dam
  • debar
  • defend against
  • foil
  • forbid
  • forestall
  • forfend
  • frustrate
put off
  • adjourn
  • dally
  • dawdle
  • dillydally
  • drag one's feet
  • hold off
  • hold over
  • lag
  • lay over
  • linger
  • loiter
  • poke
  • postpone
  • prorogue
  • put back
  • reschedule
  • retard
  • shelve
  • stay
  • suspend
  • tarry
  • trail
ruin
  • atrophy
  • bane
  • bankruptcy
  • bath
  • breakdown
  • collapse
  • confusion
  • crackup
  • crash
  • crumbling
  • damage
  • decay
  • defeat
  • degeneracy
  • degeneration
  • demolition
  • destitution
  • destruction
  • deterioration
  • dilapidation
  • disintegration
  • disrepair
start
  • alpha
  • birth
  • bow
  • commencement
  • countdown
  • dawn
  • dawning
  • day one
  • derivation
  • embarkation
  • exit
  • first step
  • flying start
  • foundation
  • inauguration
  • inception
  • initiation
  • jump-off
  • kickoff
  • leaving
  • onset
  • opening
stop
  • bar
  • barricade
  • blank wall
  • block
  • blockade
  • break
  • break off
  • brick wall
  • cease
  • cessation
  • check
  • close
  • closing
  • conclusion
  • control
  • cutoff
  • desistance
  • discontinuation
  • ending
  • fence
  • finish
  • freeze
undo
  • disengage
  • disentangle
  • free
  • loose
  • loosen
  • release
  • unbind
  • unblock
  • unbutton
  • unclose
  • unfasten
  • unfix
  • unlock
  • unloose
  • unloosen
  • unravel
  • unshut
  • unstop
  • untie
  • unwrap

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