| Main Entry: | disinherit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut off in will of bequeathal |
Synonyms: |
bereave, cut off without a cent, deprive, disaffiliate, disown, dispossess, divest, evict, exclude, exheridate, neglect, oust, repudiate, rob |
Antonyms: |
bequeath, give |
| Main Entry: | deprive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep or take away something wanted, needed |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, bare, bereave, denude, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, expropriate, hold back, lose, oust, rob, seize, skim, stiff, strip, wrest |
Antonyms: |
appropriate, bestow, confer, endow, give, indulge, offer, present, supply |
| Main Entry: | divest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispossess; take off |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, denudate, denude, deprive, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, disrobe, ditch*, doff, dump, eighty-six, lose, milk, oust, plunder, remove, rob, seize, spoil, strip, take from, unclothe, uncover, undress, unload |
Antonyms: |
clothe, cover, invest, possess, take |
| Main Entry: | lose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be deprived of; mislay |
Synonyms: |
be careless, be impoverished, be reduced, become poorer, bereave, capitulate, consume, default, deplete, disinherit, displace, dispossess, dissipate, divest, drain, drop, exhaust, expend, fail, fail to keep, fall short, forfeit, forget, give up, lavish, misplace, miss, misspend, oust, pass up, relinquish, rob, sacrifice, squander, suffer, suffer loss, surrender, use up, waste, yield |
| Notes: | loose means not restrained, fastened, confined or attached, while lose means fail to keep or to maintain or fail to win |
Antonyms: |
hold on to, keep, maintain |
| Main Entry: | oust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expel, get rid of |
Synonyms: |
banish, bereave, boot out, bounce*, bundle off, cast out, chase, depose, deprive, dethrone, discharge, disinherit, dislodge, displace, dispossess, divest, drive out, eject, evict, expulse, fire, force out, give the 1-2-3, kick out, lay off, let go, lose, ostracize, pack off, pink slip, relegate, remove, rob, sack, send packing, show the door, throw out, topple, transport, turn out, unseat |
Antonyms: |
hold, keep, retain |
| Main Entry: | repudiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reject; turn one's back on |
Synonyms: |
abandon, abjure, apostatize, banish, be against, break with, cast, cast off, cut off, decline, default, defect, demur, deny, desert, disacknowledge, disapprove, disavow, discard, disclaim, dishonor, disinherit, dismiss, disown, dump, flush*, fly in the face of, forsake, nix, oust, rat, recant, refuse, renounce, repeal, reprobate, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, spurn, tergiversate, tergiverse, turn, turn down, wash one's hands of |
Antonyms: |
admit, approve |
| Main Entry: | rob |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal, deprive |
Synonyms: |
abscond, appropriate, bereave, break into, burglarize, burgle, cheat, con, cop, defalcate, defraud, despoil, disinherit, dispossess, divest, do out of, embezzle, filch, heist, hijack, hold up, hustle, liberate, lift*, loot, lose, mug, oust, peculate, pilfer, pillage, pinch, plunder, promote, purloin, raid, ransack, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, roll*, sack, scrounge, snitch, stick up, strip, strong-arm, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, withhold |
Antonyms: |
give, offer |
| Main Entry: | will |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give, bequeath to another |
Synonyms: |
bequest, confer, cut off, devise, disherit, disinherit, leave, legate, pass on, probate, transfer |
Antonyms: |
keep, receive |
| Concept: | Will. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of volition |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
will, volition, conation, velleity; liberum arbitrium; will and pleasure, free will; freedom; discretion; option (choice); voluntariness; spontaneity, spontaneousness; originality., pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind (inclination); intention; predetermination; self-control, determination (resolution) [more]; force of will.
-verbs
will, list; see fit, think fit; determine (resolve); enjoin; settle (choose); volunteer., have a will of one's own; do what one chooses (freedom); have it all one's own way; have one's will, have one's own way., use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion; take upon oneself, take one's own course, take the law into one's own hands; do of one's own accord, do upon one's own authority; originate (cause).
-adjectives
voluntary, volitional, willful; free; optional; discretional, discretionary; volitient, volitive., minded (willing); prepense (predetermined); intended; autocratic; unbidden (bid [more]); spontaneous; original (casual); unconstrained.
-adverbs
voluntarily; at will, at pleasure; a volonte, a discretion; al piacere; ad libitum, ad arbitrium; as one thinks proper, as it seems good to; a beneplacito., of one's own accord, of one's own free will; proprio motu, suo motu, ex meromotu; out of one's own head; by choice; purposely (intentionally); deliberately.
-phrases
stet pro ratione voluntas; sic volo sic jubeo; a vostro beneplacito; beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere; Deus vull; was man nicht kann meiden muss man wilig leiden.
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Antonyms: |
necessity |
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