Ant. Malevolence, hatred, stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness.
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Benefit. Boon, service, advantage, profit, favor, blessing.
Ant. Evil, loss, damage, calamity, injury, privation.
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Benevolence. Kindness, humaneness, charitableness, good will, altruism, beneficence, liberality, philanthropy, benignity, bounty, humanity, sympathy, munificence, generosity, unselfishness, kind-heartedness.
Ant. Malevolence, malignity, selfishness, stinginess, unkindness, brutality, churlishness, barbarity, illiberality, self-seeking, niggardliness, harshness.
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Benign. Kind, gracious, amiable, gentle, friendly, benevolent, humane, obliging, good.
Ant. Hateful, harsh, brutal, churlish.
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Bequeath. Will, leave, devise; hand down, transmit, impart.
Ant. Withhold, alienate, disinherit.
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Bereavement. Deprivation, loss, destitution, affliction, forlorn condition, desolation.
Ant. Blessing, compensation, reparation, consolation, restitution, restoration, substitution.
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Bereft. Stripped, despoiled, deprived.
Ant. Endowed, blessed, enriched, compensated.
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Beseech. Beg, implore, pray, ask, solicit, entreat, petition, importune.
Ant. Grant, requite, confer; disdain, defy.
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Beset. Surround, circle, hem in, besiege, beleaguer; embarrass.
Ant. Defend, defy, repel.
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Beside. Near, close together; aside from; out of.
Ant. Far, distant.
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Besides or Beside. Except, save, distinct from; moreover, furthermore, else, beyond that.
Ant. Apart, separate from; exclusively; finally.
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Bestow. Give, present, award, grant, confer; place, stow, store.
Ant. Receive; seize, appropriate, usurp; disperse, throw away.
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Bet. Stake, wager, pledge.
Ant. Plan, calculate, dispose.
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Betide. Happen, bechance, befall, come to pass, occur, take place.
Ant. Result, be destined or doomed.
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Betimes. Seasonably, in good time or season.
Ant. Inopportune, late, tardy, unseasonable.
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Betoken. Signify, denote, indicate, represent, imply, prove, show, augur; presage, prefigure, foretell, portend.
Ant. Mask, hide, mislead, belie, misrepresent.
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Betray. Reveal, expose, divulge, deliver up, deceive; manifest, show, indicate; lure, ensnare, entrap, beguile; seduce, ruin, corrupt.
Ant. Protect, preserve, foster, cherish, conceal, suppress, guard.
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