bring to naught

Strongest matches

• repress
• suppress

Weak matches

• box up
• check
• collar
• contain
• coop up
• cork
• corner
• cover up
• cramp
• curb
• enclose
• entrap
• hold back
• hold down
• hold in
• keep back
• keep feeling inside oneself
• keep secret
• restrain
• restrict
• shut in
• trap

Strong matches

• break
• confound
• contradict
• controvert
• defeat
• demolish
• dismay
• disprove
• expose
• invalidate
• negate
• oppugn
• overcome
• overthrow
• overturn
• overwhelm
• parry
• rebut
• silence
• subvert
• tap
• upset
• vanquish

Weak matches

• blow sky-high
• knock the props out (from under)
• prove false
• prove wrong
• put down
• set aside
• shut up

Strongest matches

• baffle
• deceive
• disconcert
• disenchant
• dishearten
• disillusion
• dissatisfy
• dumbfound
• fail
• hamper
• mislead

Strong matches

• abort
• balk
• bungle
• chagrin
• circumvent
• dash
• delude
• disgruntle
• embitter
• foil
• founder
• hinder
• miscarry
• tease
• thwart
• torment
• vex

Weak matches

• cast down
• come to nothing
• dash hopes
• fall down on
• fall flat
• fall short of
• leave in the lurch
• let down
• not show
• put out
• ruin prospects
• stand up
• underwhelm

Strongest matches

• defame
• degrade
• destroy
• disgrace
• disparage
• disprove
• ruin
• slander
• smear
• vilify

Strong matches

• censure
• disesteem
• disfavor
• dishonor
• explode
• expose
• pooh-pooh
• puncture
• reproach
• shoot
• slur

Weak matches

• blow up
• bring into disrepute
• disconsider
• frown upon
• knock bottom out of
• mudsling
• poke full of holes
• put down
• reflect on
• run down
• show up
• take rug out from under
• tear down

Strongest matches

• abolish
• abrogate
• annul
• invalidate
• negate
• offset
• quash
• repeal
• rescind
• restrict
• torpedo
• undo
• veto
• void
• wipe out

Strong matches

• abate
• annihilate
• ax
• compensate
• confine
• counteract
• counterbalance
• countervail
• kill
• limit
• neutralize
• renege
• scratch
• scrub
• squash
• trash
• vitiate
• zap

Weak matches

• blue pencil
• call all bets off
• disannul
• forget it
• render null and void
• stamp out
• take out
• wash out

Strongest matches

• abolish
• censor
• conceal
• contain
• cover up
• crack down on
• crush
• curb
• cut off
• muzzle
• overcome
• overthrow
• put an end to
• put down
• quash
• quell
• quench
• repress
• silence
• snuff out
• stamp out
• stifle
• subdue
• withhold

Strong matches

• annihilate
• bottle
• burke
• check
• clamp
• conquer
• extinguish
• interrupt
• muffle
• overpower
• shush
• smother
• spike
• squash
• stop
• trample

Weak matches

• beat down
• hold back
• hold down
• hold in
• keep in
• keep secret
• put kibosh on
• put lid on
• sit on

Strongest matches

• abolish
• annul
• destroy
• mar
• negate
• offset
• overturn
• quash
• reverse
• ruin
• shatter
• spoil
• subvert
• undermine
• wipe out
• wreck

Strong matches

• abate
• abrogate
• annihilate
• break
• cancel
• cramp
• craze
• crimp
• decimate
• defeat
• demolish
• have
• impoverish
• injure
• neutralize
• outfox
• outmaneuver
• outsmart
• overreach
• overthrow
• raze
• skin
• smash
• stymie
• unsettle
• upset
• vitiate
• wrack

Weak matches

• bring down
• make waves
• screw up
• unbuild