Antonyms for harborhar·bor

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. harbor

   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, cherish, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, hold dear, nourish, nurse, nurture, protect, shelter, treasure, value

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. harbornoun

   Antonyms:
   labor, toil, peril, exposure, voyage, roving, roaming, wandering, pilgrimage, tossing

   Synonyms:
   haven, rest, refuge, shelter, anchorage, home, asylum, port

2. harborverb

   Antonyms:
   eject, expel, discard, discourage, stifle, exclude, banish, dismiss

   Synonyms:
   cherish, accommodate, entertain, encourage, indulge, shelter, foster, lodge

Matched Categories

1. • Feel
   • Hide
   • Keep
   • Port
   • Refuge
   • Seafront
   • Shelter

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. seaport, haven, harbor, harbournoun

   a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo

   Synonyms:
   haven, seaport, harbour, oasis

2. harbor, harbournoun

   a place of refuge and comfort and security

   Synonyms:
   seaport, harbour, haven

3. harbor, harbour, hold, entertain, nurseverb

   maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)

   "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment"

   Synonyms:
   accommodate, book, retain, moderate, view as, support, apply, hold back, harbour, defend, take hold, bind, suck, deem, hold up, toy with, arrest, breastfeed, take, have, concord, think about, check, make, take for, go for, throw, defy, control, keep, suckle, obligate, carry, give, adjudge, entertain, nurse, oblige, curb, hold, lactate, confine, have got, restrain, wet-nurse, withstand, agree, hold in, flirt with, halt, contain, think of, concur, maintain, guard, shield, keep back, sustain, prevail, reserve, admit, obtain, declare, give suck, bear

4. harbor, harbourverb

   secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)

   Synonyms:
   harbour, nurse, shield, entertain, hold

5. harbor, harbourverb

   keep in one's possession; of animals

   Synonyms:
   harbour, nurse, shield, entertain, hold

6. harbor, harbour, shieldverb

   hold back a thought or feeling about

   "She is harboring a grudge against him"

   Synonyms:
   screen, harbour, nurse, shield, entertain, hold

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. harbornoun

   Synonyms:
   refuge, shelter, asylum, retreat, port, haven, destination

How to use harbor in a sentence?

1. Keri Peterson:

   People are in closer proximity on trains and airplanes so they are more likely to be contaminated if someone coughs or sneezes, plus, the sanitization of trains and airplanes is not very thorough, so surfaces are more likely to harbor germs.

2. Hubert Minnis:

   We can expect more deaths to be recorded. This is just preliminary information, marsh Harbor has suffered, I would estimate, in excess of 60 percent damage to their homes.

3. President Donald Trump:

   They say take it, i'm not looking at it one way or the other, but Pearl Harbor weekFor doctors want to get out of this. If it does work, it would be a shame if Pearl Harbor weekFor doctors didn't do it early. But Pearl Harbor weekFor doctors have some very good signs.

4. John Barrasso:

   Tracy Stone-Manning collaborated with ecoterrorists, she lied to this committee, and she continues to harbor extremist views most Americans find reprehensible, she is thoroughly disqualified from holding the important position of director of the Bureau of Land Management.

5. John Donovan:

   We're very much against what we consider to be an environmental disaster that the Port's plans for Harbor Island would entail.

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