Thesaurus / bant
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synonyms for bant
- curtail
- cut
- cut down
- diminish
- dwindle
- knock off
- lessen
- lower
- pare
- scale down
- shorten
- slash
- trim
- weaken
- abate
- abridge
- bankrupt
- break
- cheapen
- chop
- clip
- contract
- debase
- deflate
- depreciate
- depress
- diet
- dilute
- discount
- drain
- impair
- impoverish
- moderate
- pauperize
- rebate
- recede
- ruin
- shave
- slim
- taper
- truncate
- cut back
- go on a diet
- lose weight
- mark down
- nutshell
- roll back
- slow down
- step down
- take off weight
- taper off
- tone down
- turn down
- wind down
antonyms for bant
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How to use bant in a sentence
In some of these old settlements there are houses where the door is still opened from without by a "sneck-bant," or "finger-hole."
LANCASHIRE SKETCHESEDWIN WAUGHEvery rich Bant keeps his kambla field consecrated to buffalo-racing, and his pair of racing buffaloes, costing from Rs.
CASTES AND TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIAEDGAR THURSTONFines inflicted by the Bant caste council are, I am informed, spent in the celebration of a temple festival.
CASTES AND TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIAEDGAR THURSTONThe foregoing account shows that the Bant marriage is a good deal more than concubinage.
CASTES AND TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIAEDGAR THURSTONA nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it “humorous and colloquial”.
PENGUIN PERSONS & PEPPERMINTSWALTER PRICHARD EATONBanting, bant′ing, n. a system of diet for reducing superfluous fat.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 1 OF 4: A-D)VARIOUSCorybant, kor′i-bant, n. a priest of Cybele, whose rites were accompanied with noisy music and wild dances:—Eng.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 1 OF 4: A-D)VARIOUSMr. Blythe is the present international bant-weight champion.
ONE THIRD OFFIRVIN S. COBBAnd I can stand it,' says I, 'I'd rather batten than bant any day.'
THE GENTLE GRAFTERO. HENRYWORDS RELATED TO BANT
- abate
- abridge
- bankrupt
- bant
- break
- cheapen
- chop
- clip
- contract
- curtail
- cut
- cut back
- cut down
- debase
- deflate
- depreciate
- depress
- diet
- dilute
- diminish
- discount
- drain
- dwindle
- go on a diet
- impair
- impoverish
- knock off
- lessen
- lose weight
- lower
- mark down
- moderate
- nutshell
- pare
- pauperize
- rebate
- recede
- roll back
- ruin
- scale down
- shave
- shorten
- slash
- slim
- slow down
- step down
- take off weight
- taper
- taper off
- tone down
- trim
- truncate
- turn down
- weaken
- wind down
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.