Encourage and Squash

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Encourage

Encourage verb - To help the growth or development of.
Usage example: asserted that the government should be encouraging small businesses, not smothering them with regulations
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Squash is an antonym for encourage.
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Squash

Squash verb - To put a stop to (something) by the use of force.
Usage example: squashed any effort to reform the country's power structure
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Encourage is an antonym for squash in compress topic.
Nearby Words: squashed, squashy, squashing
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Common collocations

character encourage character squash character
people encourage people squash people
men encourage men squash men
way encourage way squash way
Other words: competition, player, everyone, son, women, friends, heroes.
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