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recommend

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of recommend

1 to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another

  • serious gastronomes should recommend their stomachs to the restaurant's chef, giving full rein to his culinary prowess and imagination
Synonyms of recommend

commend, commit, confide, consign, delegate, deliver, entrust (also intrust), give, give over, hand, hand over, leave, pass, repose, transfer, transmit, trust, turn over, vest
Words Related to recommend

confer, grant

assign, deal (out), dispense, disperse, distribute, divide

hand in, release, relinquish, submit, surrender, turn in, yield

bequeath, hand down, hand on, will

advance, lend, loan

furnish, supply

recommit, redeliver, regive, retransfer, retransmit
Near Antonyms of recommend

detain, hold back, reserve, withhold

own, possess

accept, receive, take in

occupy, take, take over
Antonyms of recommend

hold, keep, retain

2 to put forward (something) as oneʼs choice for a wise or proper course of action

  • I would recommend you look into that option a little more closely because I donʼt think it will work nearly as well as you think
Synonyms of recommend

advise, counsel, suggest
Words Related to recommend

advocate, back, champion, espouse, favor, support

exhort, urge

advance, offer, propose, submit

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