Antonyms for accompany
əˈkʌm pə niac·com·pa·ny

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1. accompany

   Anything that comes after or goes after another, either in space or in time, is said to follow it. A servant follows or attends his master; a victorious general may follow the retiring enemy merely to watch and hold him in check; he chases or pursues with intent to overtake and attack; the chase is closer and hotter than the pursuit. (Compare synonyms for HUNT.) One event may follow another either with or without special connection; if it ensues, there is some orderly connection; as, the ensuing year; if it results from another, there is some relation of effect, consequence, or inference. A clerk observes his employer's directions. A child obeys his parent's commands, follows or copies his example, imitates his speech and manners. The compositor follows copy; the incoming succeeds the outgoing official.

   Synonyms:
   attend, chase, come after, copy, ensue, follow, go after, heed, imitate, obey, observe, practise, pursue, result, succeed

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1. accompany

   Antonyms:
   desert, abandon, leave, avoid, eschew, quit, discard

   Synonyms:
   follow, consort, attend, join, coexist, escort, convoy

Matched Categories

1. • Travel

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1. attach to, accompany, come with, go withverb

   be present or associated with an event or entity

   "French fries come with the hamburger"; "heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of heart tissue"; "fish usually goes with white wine"; "this kind of vein accompanies certain arteries"

   Synonyms:
   company, go with, attach to, keep company, play along, co-occur with, come with, inhere in, cooccur with, collocate with, companion, construe with, follow

2. accompanyverb

   go or travel along with

   "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere"

   Synonyms:
   company, go with, keep company, attach to, come with, play along, companion, follow

3. play along, accompany, followverb

   perform an accompaniment to

   "The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano"

   Synonyms:
   conform to, company, play along, espouse, go along, travel along, keep an eye on, come with, fall out, adopt, survey, comply, come after, abide by, be, companion, watch over, pursue, take after, keep up, go with, watch, keep abreast, follow, keep company, attach to, stick to, observe, surveil, succeed, come, postdate, trace, stick with

4. company, companion, accompany, keep companyverb

   be a companion to somebody

   Synonyms:
   company, go with, attach to, keep company, come with, play along, companion, follow

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1. accompanyverb

   Synonyms:
   escort, attend, convoy, chaperon

How to use accompany in a sentence?

1. Dmitry Suslov:

   The whole reason behind the concentration of troops by Russia at the Ukrainian border is to create tension, to accompany the Russian political demands with the demonstration of military force, which has already brought some significant positive results to Russia, from the Russian perspective, and this is the predominant opinion really widespread in Moscow, withoutthe concentration of the Russian troops, without belligerent rhetoric, without speculation about the ‘military-technical’ response by Russia, Russian security guarantee demands would have gone directly to the dustbins everywhere in the West.

2. Paul Oquist:

   We want to explain now why we cannot accompany this consensus.

3. Johannes Hahn:

   This shows our very strong engagement to accompany you in your reform efforts and to turn your EU integration perspective into reality, start work as soon as possible, do not lose a single day: produce results to quell all doubts.

4. Pope Benedict:

   I believe that you cannot reject people who arrive. You have to receive them, help them, look after them, accompany them and then see where to put them, but throughout all of Europe, some governments are working on it, and people have to be settled in the best possible way, but creating psychosis is not the cure.

5. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador:

   We are going to accompany the current government in this negotiation, we are going to be very respectful, and we are going to support the signing of the agreement.

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