Decline and Engage

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Decline

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

Engage

Engage verb - To hold the attention of.
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Antonyms for Engage
Decline is an antonym for engage in topics: attack, use, engross, interconnect, promise to marry.
Nearby Words: engagement, engaging, engagingly
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  • Guns Are Worthless Combined with the loud noises guns can make (which can startle horses) as well as the decline of armor on the battlefield and less of a need to engage in (very dangerous) melee combat, there were a lot of reasons why units of gunmen took over warfare.
    Source: Guns Are Worthless
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