Antonyms for cherish
ˈtʃɛr ɪʃcher·ish

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1. cherish

   To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

   See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

   Synonyms:
   cheer, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, harbor, hold dear, nourish, nurse, nurture, protect, shelter, treasure, value

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. cherish

   Antonyms:
   stifle, abandon, discard, discourage, check

   Synonyms:
   foster, nurse, promote, nourish, nurture, comfort, protect, entertain, value, encourage

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1. • Love

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. care for, cherish, hold dear, treasureverb

   be fond of; be attached to

   Synonyms:
   prize, treasure, value, appreciate, treat, care for, hold dear

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1. cherishverb

   Synonyms:
   treasure

How to use cherish in a sentence?

1. Pete Carroll:

   He brings a lot to the table, when you get to add somebody like that to your team, it only helps and enhances the mentality we cherish already.

2. Eric Decker 2:37:

   Those are the moments you cherish and remember, it's never really the stats you remember, it's those moments with your teammates in the locker room, the excitement.

3. John F. Kennedy:

   For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

4. Benjamin Weingarten:

   That House Democrats' final act in the majority was to strike one last blow in their relentless war against Donald Trump — in the process running roughshod over the very norms and institutions they so claim to cherish — marks a fitting end to their progressive rule, and tells you all you need to know about their priorities and posture as they lose their grip on power, this was of a piece with the Soviet show trial-style January 6th Committee that recently reached its unceremonious conclusion, the primary purpose of which was never to unearth truth or hold people to account, but to politically persecute political foes declared guilty at the outset while the Biden Justice Department does the Democrats' legal bidding in criminalizing its political opponents.

5. Proverb:

   If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if not it was never truly yours.

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