Antonyms for dust off
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : duhst |
| Phonetic Transcription : dÊŒst |
- abstain
- accept
- aid
- allow
- approve
- ascend
- bear
- begin
- build
- construct
- continue
- create
- do
- downpour
- encourage
- establish
- free
- give birth
- go
- grow
- guard
- heal
- heat
- help
- hold
- initiate
- inspirit
- institute
- keep
- liberate
- light
- lose
- maintain
- marry
- mount
- pour
- preserve
- protect
- pursue
- ratify
- refrain
- rise
- save
- schedule
- set up
- start
- stay
- take up
- warm
Definition of dust off
Origin :- Old English dust, from Proto-Germanic *dunstaz (cf. Old High German tunst "storm, breath," German Dunst "mist, vapor," Danish dyst "milldust," Dutch duist), from PIE *dheu- (1) "dust, smoke, vapor" (cf. Sanskrit dhu- "shake," Latin fumus "smoke"). Meaning "that to which living matter decays" was in Old English, hence, figuratively, "mortal life."
- As in murder : verb kill
- As in put away : verb kill
- As in drop : verb abandon; ignore
Synonyms for dust off
- abolish
- abort
- adios
- asphyxiate
- assassinate
- be alienated from
- behead
- blot out
- break with
- bump off
- bury
- butcher
- call off
- cancel
- cast off
- cease
- chill
- cool
- cut off
- decapitate
- defeat
- desert
- destroy
- discontinue
- dismiss
- disown
- dispatch
- ditch
- divorce
- do away with
- do in
- drub
- dust off
- eighty-six
- electrocute
- eliminate
- end
- eradicate
- execute
- exterminate
- extinguish
- finish
- forfeit
- forget about
- forsake
- garotte
- give up
- guillotine
- hang
- have done with
- hit
- inter
- interrupt
- jilt
- kick
- knife
- knock off
- leave
- liquidate
- lose
- lynch
- mangle
- mar
- massacre
- misuse
- murder
- off
- part from
- part with
- plant
- put away
- put down
- put out of its misery
- put to sleep
- quit
- reject
- relinquish
- remit
- renounce
- repudiate
- resign
- rub out
- ruin
- sacrifice
- scratch
- scrub
- separate
- shake
- shoot
- slaughter
- slay
- smother
- snuff
- spoil
- stop
- strangle
- take a life
- take for a ride
- take out
- terminate
- thrash
- throw over
- tomb
- wash out
- waste
- waste one
- wipe out
- write off
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