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season

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of season

1 to make more pleasant to the taste by adding something intensely flavored

  • the chef seasoned the vegetables as soon as they came out of the oven
Synonyms of season

flavor, lace, savor (also savour), spice
Words Related to season

enhance, enrich, sauce

pepper, salt

aromatize, perfume

2 to bring to a proper or desired state of fitness

  • carefully seasoned the cast iron pan with vegetable oil before using it for the first time
Synonyms of season

condition, train
Words Related to season

fit, habilitate, prepare, ready

acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, adapt, adjust, break in, orient, orientate, shape

accustom, familiarize, habituate, naturalize

fortify, harden, inure, season, shape up, steel, strengthen, toughen
Antonyms of season

decondition

3 to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposure

  • troops that had been seasoned by months of intense training
Synonyms of season

fortify, harden, indurate, inure, steel, strengthen, toughen
Words Related to season

acclimate, acclimatize, adapt, adjust

anneal, temper

invigorate, vitalize

immunize

bolster, boost, brace, buttress, enforce, forearm, prop (up), reinforce (also reenforce), support

break in, limber (up), train

accustom, condition, habituate, naturalize
Near Antonyms of season

emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, sap, weaken

cripple, debilitate, hamstring, incapacitate

sensitize
Antonyms of season

soften

4 to make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function

  • her campaign manager has been seasoned by several hotly contested gubernatorial campaigns
Synonyms of season

equip, fit, prepare, qualify, ready, train
Words Related to season

accustom, adapt, adjust, condition, groom, habituate, shape, tailor

authorize, entitle

empower, enable

educate, indoctrinate, instruct, school, teach, tutor

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