Antonyms for hook
hʊkhook

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1. hook

   A bar is a piece of wood or metal, usually of considerable size, by which an opening is obstructed, a door held fast, etc. A bar may be movable or permanent; a bolt is a movable rod or pin of metal, sliding in a socket and adapted for securing a door or window. A lock is an arrangement by which an enclosed bolt is shot forward or backward by a key, or other device; the bolt is the essential part of the lock. A latch or catch is an accessible fastening designed to be easily movable, and simply to secure against accidental opening of the door, cover, etc. A hasp is a metallic strap that fits over a staple, calculated to be secured by a padlock; a simple hook that fits into a staple is also called a hasp. A clasp is a fastening that can be sprung into place, to draw and hold the parts of some enclosing object firmly together, as the clasp of a book.

   Synonyms:
   bar, bolt, catch, clasp, fastening, hasp, latch, lock

Matched Categories

1. • Accustom
   • Boxing
   • Catch
   • Cheat
   • Curve
   • Entice
   • Fasten
   • Golf
   • Handicraft
   • Hit
   • Implement
   • Loop
   • Offer
   • Play
   • Punch
   • Rugby
   • Steal

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1. hooknoun

   a catch for locking a door

   Antonyms:
   unhook

   Synonyms:
   hook shot, crotchet, lure, sweetener, claw, bait, hooking, come-on, draw

2. hook, crotchetnoun

   a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

   Antonyms:
   unhook

   Synonyms:
   hook shot, queerness, crotchet, lure, quarter note, sweetener, quirk, claw, oddity, bait, hooking, come-on, quirkiness, draw

3. bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetenernoun

   anything that serves as an enticement

   Antonyms:
   unhook

   Synonyms:
   hook shot, draw, sweetening, decoy, lure, sweetener, claw, crotchet, bait, hooking, come-on, enticement

4. hook, clawnoun

   a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

   Antonyms:
   unhook

   Synonyms:
   hook shot, chela, crotchet, lure, sweetener, claw, nipper, bait, hooking, come-on, pincer, draw

5. hooknoun

   a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something

   Antonyms:
   unhook

   Synonyms:
   hook shot, crotchet, lure, sweetener, claw, bait, hooking, come-on, draw

6. hook, draw, hookingnoun

   a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer

   "he took lessons to cure his hooking"

   Antonyms:
   unhook

   Synonyms:
   bait, haul, standoff, lot, drawing card, attractor, claw, come-on, draw play, tie, draw, hooking, sweetener, draw poker, lure, hook shot, crotchet, attracter, attraction, haulage

7. hooknoun

   a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent

   Antonyms:
   unhook

   Synonyms:
   hook shot, crotchet, lure, sweetener, claw, bait, hooking, come-on, draw

8. hook shot, hookverb

   a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket

   Antonyms:
   unhook

   Synonyms:
   hook shot, lure, sweetener, claw, crotchet, bait, hooking, come-on, draw

9. hookverb

   fasten with a hook

   Antonyms:
   unhook

   Synonyms:
   fleece, thieve, filch, cabbage, surcharge, sneak, snare, knock off, snarf, swipe, addict, purloin, pluck, accost, nobble, pilfer, crochet, overcharge, pinch, soak, lift, gazump, rob, glom, solicit, snitch, plume, cop, abstract

10. overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hookverb

    rip off; ask an unreasonable price

    Antonyms:
    unhook

    Synonyms:
    crochet, pride, nobble, dress, congratulate, cull, abstract, preen, glom, douse, sneak, rob, drench, hit it up, lift, displume, pick off, pilfer, roll, swipe, surcharge, soak, overcharge, pull off, cop, accost, souse, pull, pawn, deplume, gazump, hustle, solicit, snare, dowse, snarf, shear, plunk, plume, pluck, primp, snitch, hock, tweak, pinch, filch, knock off, purloin, pick, deplumate, overload, thieve, sop, addict, cabbage, imbue, inebriate, tear, fleece, intoxicate

11. crochet, hookverb

    make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle

    "She sat there crocheting all day"

    Antonyms:
    unhook

    Synonyms:
    fleece, thieve, filch, cabbage, surcharge, sneak, snare, accost, snarf, swipe, addict, pluck, nobble, pilfer, crochet, overcharge, pinch, soak, lift, gazump, cop, rob, glom, solicit, purloin, snitch, plume, knock off, abstract

12. hookverb

    hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left

    Antonyms:
    unhook

    Synonyms:
    fleece, thieve, filch, cabbage, surcharge, sneak, snare, knock off, snarf, swipe, addict, purloin, pluck, accost, nobble, pilfer, crochet, overcharge, pinch, soak, lift, gazump, rob, glom, solicit, snitch, plume, cop, abstract

13. hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glomverb

    take by theft

    "Someone snitched my wallet!"

    Antonyms:
    unhook

    Synonyms:
    thieve, cop, betray, neutralise, nobble, fling off, cabbage, shave, liquidate, nail, collar, rob, accost, overcharge, arrest, nab, dash off, snitch, lift, surcharge, soak, abstract, neutralize, sneak, shit, do in, give away, pilfer, filch, scratch off, gazump, solicit, snare, toss off, purloin, snarf, stag, crochet, plume, pluck, apprehend, shop, pinch, swipe, grass, pick up, drop, denounce, knock off, addict, tell on, fleece, glom, waste, rat

14. pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, liftverb

    make off with belongings of others

    Antonyms:
    unhook

    Synonyms:
    elevate, snitch, rook, mouse, top, victimize, nobble, uprise, arise, cop, cabbage, repeal, abstract, kidnap, vellicate, crimp, snarf, lift, con, vacate, defraud, hornswoggle, reverse, pussyfoot, go up, plagiarise, bring up, airlift, raise, rob, plume, revoke, pilfer, accost, overcharge, knock off, sneak, rise, abduct, move up, thieve, addict, crochet, filch, get up, squeeze, gyp, swindle, come up, creep, diddle, pinch, wind, pluck, swipe, solicit, countermand, bunco, twitch, rear, soak, rustle, hoist, short-change, goldbrick, snatch, purloin, scam, tweet, snare, face-lift, fleece, mulct, gip, plagiarize, gazump, surcharge, twinge, rescind, annul, slip, overturn, glom

15. hookverb

    hit with a hook

    "His opponent hooked him badly"

    Antonyms:
    unhook

    Synonyms:
    fleece, thieve, filch, cabbage, surcharge, sneak, snare, knock off, snarf, swipe, addict, purloin, pluck, accost, nobble, pilfer, crochet, overcharge, pinch, soak, lift, gazump, rob, glom, solicit, snitch, plume, cop, abstract

16. hookverb

    catch with a hook

    "hook a fish"

    Antonyms:
    unhook

    Synonyms:
    fleece, thieve, filch, cabbage, surcharge, sneak, snare, knock off, snarf, swipe, addict, purloin, pluck, accost, nobble, pilfer, crochet, overcharge, pinch, soak, lift, gazump, rob, glom, solicit, snitch, plume, cop, abstract

17. addict, hookverb

    to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

    Antonyms:
    unhook

    Synonyms:
    fleece, thieve, filch, cabbage, surcharge, sneak, snare, accost, snarf, swipe, addict, pluck, nobble, pilfer, crochet, overcharge, pinch, soak, lift, gazump, cop, rob, glom, solicit, purloin, snitch, plume, knock off, abstract

18. hookverb

    secure with the foot

    "hook the ball"

    Antonyms:
    unhook

    Synonyms:
    fleece, thieve, filch, cabbage, surcharge, sneak, snare, knock off, snarf, swipe, addict, purloin, pluck, accost, nobble, pilfer, crochet, overcharge, pinch, soak, lift, gazump, rob, glom, solicit, snitch, plume, cop, abstract

19. hook, snareverb

    entice and trap

    "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"

    Antonyms:
    unhook

    Synonyms:
    thieve, cop, nobble, cabbage, trap, rob, accost, overcharge, trammel, snitch, lift, surcharge, crochet, soak, abstract, sneak, pilfer, filch, gazump, solicit, snare, purloin, snarf, ensnare, plume, pluck, pinch, swipe, knock off, addict, entrap, glom, fleece

20. hook, solicit, accostverb

    approach with an offer of sexual favors

    "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

    Antonyms:
    unhook

    Synonyms:
    thieve, cop, nobble, cabbage, romance, come up to, rob, accost, overcharge, snitch, lift, surcharge, soak, abstract, sneak, pilfer, filch, gazump, solicit, snare, purloin, snarf, address, woo, crochet, plume, pluck, pinch, swipe, tap, knock off, addict, beg, fleece, glom, court

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1. hooknoun

   Synonyms:
   hasp, clasp, catch, crook, tenaculum, peavey, clives, agraffe, fluke, pot-hook, cant-hook, cleek, trammel, cottrel, snare, decoy, trap, bill-hook, sickle

2. hookverb

   Synonyms:
   fasten, catch, secure, entrap, ensnare, gore, steal

How to use hook in a sentence?

1. Samuel Johnson:

   A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

2. The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission:

   Schools should be sanctified places where children can learn without fearing for their lives, but since Sandy Hook there have been more than 100 school shootings across the country, this report represents a tapestry on ways we can help reduce those shootings and we hope states across the country take a good look.

3. Elizabeth Warren:

   Congress should not put taxpayers on the hook for another bailout, and this giveaway that was drafted by Citigroup lobbyists has no place in a critical government funding bill.

4. Michael Tronolone:

   To hook those sensors together will increase our capabilities exponentially.

5. Dennis Wiley:

   That seems to be part of our culture now, meet, have sex, hook up, sayonara. Totally inappropriate behavior. There is no excuse for this whatsoever.

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