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Antonyms for throw cold water on
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : kohld |
Phonetic Transcription : koʊld |
- activate
- admire
- advance
- aid
- allow
- approve
- assist
- assure
- calm
- cheer
- comfort
- commend
- compliment
- continue
- delight
- disperse
- elevate
- encourage
- energize
- exalt
- excite
- facilitate
- favor
- flatter
- forward
- free
- gladden
- hearten
- heat
- help
- honor
- improve
- incite
- include
- increase
- inspire
- inspirit
- instigate
- invigorate
- laud
- let go
- liberate
- lift
- make happy
- order
- permit
- persuade
- please
- praise
- promote
- push
- push up
- put on to
- raise
- reassure
- release
- scatter
- soothe
- spur on
- start
- stimulate
- strengthen
- support
- surrender
- talk into
- turn on
- upgrade
- uplift
- urge
- warm
- yield
Definition of throw cold water on
Origin :- Old English cald (Anglian), ceald (West Saxon) "cold, cool" (adj.), "coldness," from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz (cf. Old Frisian and Old Saxon kald, Old High German and German kalt, Old Norse kaldr, Gothic kalds "cold"), possibly a past participle adjective of *kal-/*kol-, from PIE root *gel-/*gol- "cold" (cf. Latin gelare "to freeze," gelu "frost," glacies "ice").
- Meaning "not strong" (in reference to scent) is 1590s, from hunting. Cold front in weather is from 1921. Cold-call in the sales pitch sense first recorded 1972. Japanese has two words for "cold:" samui for coldness in the atmosphere or environment; tsumetai for things which are cold to touch, and also in the figurative sense, with reference to personalities, behaviors, etc.
- As in prohibit : verb make impossible; stop
- As in repress : verb keep back, hold in
- As in sadden : verb upset, depress
- As in depress : verb deject, make despondent; exhaust
- As in deter : verb check, inhibit from action
- As in discourage : verb dishearten, dispirit
- As in discourage : verb deter, dissuade; restrain
- As in dissuade : verb talk out of
Synonyms for throw cold water on
- abase
- abash
- act like a wet blanket
- advise against
- afflict
- ail
- alarm
- appall
- avert
- awe
- ban
- bear down
- beat
- beat down
- black out
- block
- bother
- bottle
- bottle up
- box in
- break one's heart
- bring one down
- bring to screeching halt
- bug
- bully
- bum out
- cast down
- caution
- caution against
- chasten
- check
- chicken out
- chill
- collect
- compose
- confuse
- constrain
- control
- cool
- cork
- counsel
- cow
- crush
- cry out against
- curb
- damp
- dampen
- dampen spirits
- darken
- dash
- daunt
- debar
- debase
- debilitate
- degrade
- deject
- demoralize
- deplore
- deprecate
- depress
- derail
- desolate
- deter
- devitalize
- disadvise
- disallow
- discountenance
- discourage
- disfavor
- dishearten
- disincline
- dismay
- disparage
- dispirit
- dissuade
- distress
- disturb
- divert
- down
- drag
- drag down
- drain
- droop
- dull
- enervate
- enjoin
- exhort
- expostulate
- faze
- forbid
- forestall
- forfend
- freeze
- frighten
- gridlock
- grieve
- halt
- hamper
- hang up
- hinder
- hold back
- hold off
- hold up
- impede
- indispose
- inhibit
- interdict
- interfere
- intimidate
- irk
- jam up
- keep back
- keep in
- keep in check
- keep lid on
- keep under
- keep under wraps
- kill
- lean on
- lock
- lock up
- lower
- make blue
- master
- mock
- mortify
- muffle
- nix
- obstruct
- obviate
- oppress
- outlaw
- overawe
- overcome
- overpower
- pass on
- persuade not to
- perturb
- preclude
- press
- prevent
- prick
- prohibit
- proscribe
- prostrate
- put a damper on
- put a lock on
- put a stopper in
- put chill on
- put down
- put half nelson on
- put into a funk
- put off
- quash
- quelch
- quell
- quiet
- reduce
- reduce to tears
- rein
- remonstrate
- repress
- restrain
- restrict
- rule out
- run down
- sadden
- sap
- scare
- scorn
- shake
- shush
- shut out
- silence
- simmer down
- slow
- smother
- spike
- squelch
- stave off
- stifle
- stop
- stymie
- subdue
- subjugate
- suppress
- swallow
- taboo
- talk out of
- throw a wet blanket on
- throw cold water on
- throw off
- thwart
- tie up
- torment
- trouble
- try
- turn aside
- turn off
- turn one off
- unnerve
- upset
- urge not to
- veto
- vex
- warn
- weaken
- weary
- weigh
- weigh down
- withhold
- zing
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