Word Meanings - PRACTISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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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.