Antonyms for indispose
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : in-di-spohz |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪn dɪˈspoʊz |
- advance
- aid
- allow
- amplify
- approve
- assist
- break off
- build up
- calm
- clear up
- comfort
- compliment
- cure
- delight
- dilate
- disagree
- discourage
- encourage
- enlarge
- expand
- explain
- extend
- facilitate
- fail
- forfeit
- forward
- give
- hearten
- help
- hold
- increase
- inspire
- inspirit
- lengthen
- let go
- lose
- make happy
- make well
- mend
- misunderstand
- order
- overthrow
- permit
- place
- please
- praise
- promote
- quiet
- rise
- settle
- soothe
- spread
- spur on
- stimulate
- straighten
- stretch
- support
- urge
Definition of indispose
- As in upset : verb bother, trouble
- As in contract : verb catch disease
- As in discourage : verb deter, dissuade; restrain
- As in dishearten : verb depress, ruin one's hopes
- I did not wish to indispose him still further by an appearance of marked curiosity.
- Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
- We may now manage so to deal with the rest as to indispose them for further pursuit.
- Extract from : « Runnymede and Lincoln Fair » by J.G. Edgar
- The religion of Sully also tended to indispose the Queen towards him.
- Extract from : « The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 2 (of 3) » by Julia Pardoe
- We indispose the French government, and they will retract their offer of the treaty of commerce.
- Extract from : « Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson » by Thomas Jefferson
- Patience seems to be prudence, in this case; to indispose them, would do no good, and might do harm.
- Extract from : « Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson » by Thomas Jefferson
- The sympathy manifested for this science at Montpellier was quite enough to indispose toward it the faculty of Paris.
- Extract from : « The Catholic World. Volume II; Numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. » by E. Rameur
- Spirits are decidedly prejudicial, and indispose to bodily exertion.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
- The cause in which this document was written will indispose the candid reader to any criticism of its somewhat exuberant language.
- Extract from : « White Slavery in the Barbary States » by Charles Sumner
- The path now became steep and rather difficult; so much so, indeed, as to indispose them all to conversation.
- Extract from : « Home as Found » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Women, you know, are susceptible on these points; it might indispose her towards me, and lessen my chance.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848 » by Various
Synonyms for indispose
- acquire
- adjy
- afflict
- agitate
- ail
- be afflicted with
- be ill with
- become infected with
- bewilder
- bring on
- bug
- cast down
- cause
- check
- chill
- come down with
- confound
- control
- cramp
- craze
- crush
- curb
- damp
- dampen
- dash
- daunt
- debilitate
- decline
- deject
- demoralize
- deprecate
- derange
- deter
- develop
- disadvise
- discombobulate
- discompose
- disconcert
- discountenance
- discourage
- disfavor
- disincline
- dismay
- disorder
- disparage
- dispirit
- disquiet
- distract
- distress
- disturb
- divert
- egg on
- fall
- fall victim to
- fire up
- flip
- flip out
- floor
- flurry
- fluster
- frighten
- get
- get down
- get to
- give a hard time
- go down with
- grieve
- hinder
- hold back
- hold off
- humble
- humiliate
- impede
- incapacitate
- incur
- indispose
- induce
- inhibit
- interfere
- keep back
- key up
- lay up
- make a scene
- make waves
- obstruct
- obtain
- perturb
- pick on
- pother
- prevent
- psych
- put a damper on
- put down
- put off
- quiet
- rattle
- repress
- rock the boat
- ruffle
- scare
- shake
- sicken
- sink
- spook
- stir up
- succumb to
- take
- take one's death
- talk out of
- throw a pall over
- throw cold water on
- throw off balance
- turn
- turn aside
- turn off
- turn on
- unhinge
- unnerve
- unsettle
- upset
- warn
- weaken
- withhold
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