Approve and Kept back

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Approve verb - To give official acceptance of as satisfactory.

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Kept back is an antonym for approve.

Nearby Words: approval, approbation, approving, approvingly, approvement

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Approve is an antonym for kept back in topics: reject, hinder, deter, disagree.

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