Administer
Administer verb - To give out (something) to appropriate individuals.
Usage example: the principal administers discipline fairly when students break the rules
Refuse is an antonym for administer in topics: manage an organization or effort, dispense something needed.
Refuse
Common collocations
| sex | administer sex | refuse sex |
| treatment | administer treatment | refuse treatment |
| money | administer money | refuse money |
| cure | administer cure | refuse cure |
| Other words: medication. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- When the title character is reassigned to a small village in the mountains in the second movie, his former flock miss their Good Shepherd so much they refuse to die until he's returned to personally administer last rites.
Source: Beyond The Impossible / Film
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