Synonyms and Antonyms of sets aside
1
to keep or intend for a special purpose
- He set aside $100 a month for a down payment on a car.
2
to put an end to by formal action
- The company set aside the old strict dress code and allowed employees to dress a little more casually.
abates, abolishes, abrogates, annuls, avoids, cancels, disannuls, dissolves, invalidates, negates, nullifies, nulls, quashes, repeals, rescinds, rolls back, strikes down, vacates, voids
countermands, overrides, overrules, overturns, vetoes
aborts, calls, calls off, drops, recalls, retracts, reverses, revokes, suspends, withdraws
bans, enjoins, forbids, outlaws, prohibits
disallows, dismisses, rejects
annihilates, breaks down, eliminates, eradicates, erases, liquidates, removes, throws out, writes off
enacts, lays down, legislates
establishes, founds, institutes
formalizes, legalizes, legitimates, legitimizes, validates
passes, ratifies
allows, approves, authorizes, clears, endorses (also indorses), permits, sanctions, warrants
commands, decrees, mandates, orders, prescribes
3
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
- The professional organizer helped us set aside anything we didn't need or want anymore.
cashiers, casts (off), chucks, deep-sixes, discards, ditches, dumps, eighty-sixes (or 86es), exorcises (also exorcizes), flings (off or away), jettisons, junks, lays by, loses, pitches, rejects, scraps, sheds, shucks (off), sloughs (off) also
sluffs (off)
, throws away, throws out, tosses, unloads
abandons, abdicates, deserts, forsakes
dismisses, kicks out
abolishes, annihilates, eliminates, eradicates, expunges, exterminates, extinguishes, extirpates, liquidates, removes, roots (out), stamps (out), wipes out
4
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place
- She set aside her wedding dress in case her own daughter might want to wear it some day.
caches, hoards, lays away, lays by, lays in, lays up, puts by, salts away, squirrels (away), stashes, stockpiles, stores, stows, treasures
accumulates, acquires, amasses, assembles, collects, concentrates, garners, gathers, picks up, rounds up, scrapes (together)
heaps, piles, stacks
conserves, husbands, preserves
banks, coffers, deposits, holds, keeps, reserves, retains, saves, sets by, stocks, withholds
buries, conceals, ensconces, secretes
casts, discards, ditches, dumps, flings (off or away), jettisons, throws away, throws out, unloads
consumes, squanders, uses up, wastes
hands out, hands over, relinquishes, surrenders
blows, dissipates, fritters (away), lavishes, misspends, runs through, spends
depletes, exhausts, expends, impoverishes
dispels, disperses, dissipates, scatters
