Word Meanings - PRACTISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRACTISE)
- Exercise Practise
- train
- cultivate
- develop
- Keep
- Hold
- restrain
- retain
- detain
- guard
- preserve
- suppress
- repress
- conceal
- tend
- support
- maintain
- conduct
- continue
- obey
- haunt
- observe
- frequent
- celebrate
- protect
- adhere to
- practise
- binder
- sustain
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRACTISE)
- Drop
- betray
- surrender
- abandon
- discontinue
- oppose
- discourage
- weaken
- exhaust
- thwart
- discountenance
- disfavor
- subvert
- suppress
Related words: (words related to PRACTISE)
- MAINTAIN
by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; - FREQUENTATIVE
Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n. - SUSTAIN
F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - GUARDIAN
One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., - GUARDIANSHIP
The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - GUARDIANESS
A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - SUSTAINABLE
Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable. - GUARDIANLESS
Without a guardian. Marston. - PROTECT
To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend. - CONCEALED
Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute. - DISCONTINUE
To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school - GUARDER
One who guards. - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - GUARDANT
See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak. - REPRESSIBLE
Capable of being repressed. - SUPPORTFUL
Abounding with support. Chapman. - OVERFREQUENT
Too frequent. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - CHAUNTERIE
See CHAUCER - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - COUNTERGUARD
A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire. - MISOBSERVE
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke. - DISTRAINER
See DISTRAINOR - HALF-STRAINED
Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.