Admit and Decline

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Admit

Admit verb - To offer entrance (as to a place, school, or privilege) to.
Usage example: she was admitted to Harvard
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Antonyms for Admit
Decline is an antonym for admit in confess topic.
Nearby Words: admission, admitted, admittedly, admitting

Decline

Decline verb - To show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to.
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Synonyms for Decline
Antonyms for Decline
Admit is an antonym for decline.
Nearby Words: declined, declining, declination, declinable
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Common collocations

love admit love decline love
role admit role decline role
shot admit shot decline shot
times admit times decline times

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Jobs He deals with this by dumping his girlfriend and refusing to admit the child is his, going so far as to decline visitation rights with his daughter even after he's been found legally responsible for her support.
    Source: Film / Jobs
  • Fans of My Family tend to admit that the later seasons, were marked by a general decline in the writing, with increasingly grating Flanderization, jokes being run into the ground, and a character who had spent several seasons near-obsessed with women suddenly and arbitrarily coming out as gay.
    Source: Seasonal Rot / Live-Action TV
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