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Antonyms for make advances

Grammar : Verb

Definition of make advances

As in socialize : verb be friendly at gatherings
As in woo : verb seek as romantic partner
As in nationalize : verb socialize

Example sentences :

He was not just then in a mood either to make advances or to receive them.
Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett

The family of the young man should be the first to make advances.
Extract from : « The Etiquette of To-day » by Edith B. Ordway

It was not her place to make advances, all too likely to be rebuffed.
Extract from : « Marjorie Dean » by Pauline Lester

For there are few men in the world who make advances where there is no encouragement.
Extract from : « Ernest Maltravers, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Then the Duke of Shrewsbury said he thought that Duke was not used to make advances.
Extract from : « The Journal to Stella » by Jonathan Swift

In order to make advances the most diverse methods were used, as was said before.
Extract from : « A German deserter's war experience » by Anonymous

For a moment he was afraid that she was going to make advances, but she passed on.
Extract from : « A Virgin Heart » by Remy de Gourmont

They have not been willing to make advances on farms that cannot be made to pay.
Extract from : « One Irish Summer » by William Eleroy Curtis

It was so difficult for her to make advances, so fatally easy for him to rebuff them.
Extract from : « The Nest Builder » by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

They will pay all bank-notes in full, and will make advances not exceeding 15s.
Extract from : « Christopher Crayon's Recollections » by J. Ewing Ritchie

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