Antonyms for bant


Grammar : Verb
Spell : bant
Phonetic Transcription : bænt


Definition of bant

  • As in reduce : verb make less; decrease
Example sentences :
  • And I can stand it,' says I, 'I'd rather batten than bant any day.'
  • Extract from : « The Gentle Grafter » by O. Henry
  • Banting, bant′ing, n. a system of diet for reducing superfluous fat.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
  • Every rich Bant keeps his kambla field consecrated to buffalo-racing, and his pair of racing buffaloes, costing from Rs.
  • Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston
  • Fines inflicted by the Bant caste council are, I am informed, spent in the celebration of a temple festival.
  • Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston
  • The foregoing account shows that the Bant marriage is a good deal more than concubinage.
  • Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston
  • A nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it “humorous and colloquial”.
  • Extract from : « Penguin Persons & Peppermints » by Walter Prichard Eaton

Synonyms for bant

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