Thursday, January 26, 2012

What are antonyms of SURVEY and SEARCH?

The antonyms for these two wards are hard to come up with, but you can be creative, just explain your reasoning.What are antonyms of SURVEY and SEARCH?
I think a lot of verbs just don't have true antonyms.



I imagine that to have an antonum, their actions would have to be binary or directional operations that are reversible. eg COVER vs UNCOVER, HEAT vs COOL, RAISE vs LOWER



I suppose that since verbs are all 'doing' something, an all-purpose antonym is to NOT do the thing. But that seems kind of boring and useless. eg TALK vs SHUT-UP





If you take SURVEY meaning 'to look at something' then perhaps the antonym could be IGNORE 'to not look at something'.



If you take SEARCH meaning 'to try to find something' then I would go with HIDE or CONCEAL 'to try to stop something from being found'.What are antonyms of SURVEY and SEARCH?
Synonyms for search could be dig, explore, or pursuit therefore an antonym could be to cover, conceal, let go.

For survey how about neglect or ignore if you consider scrutinize as a synonym.

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