anoint
How many syllables in anoint?
There are 2 syllables in the word anoint.How to pronounce anoint:
Synonyms for anoint:
anele
bedaub
besmear
coat
daub
embrocate
grease
inunct
oil
paint
plaster
rub
smear
spread over
stain
Antonyms for anoint:
close
disallow
disapprove
disqualify
divest
end
refuse
reject
take
take away
take out
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- poser
- frailty
- embay
- toffee
- collin
- wriggled
- shying
- direly
- contrast
- Charon
- neglect
- laicize
- forgo
- cation
- whoe'er
- surrounds
- planner
- jocund
- creaky
- copies
- amble
- unclean
- unbolt
- tramble
- offspring
- hexact
- dresser
- whining
- robber
- wordless
- wrecked
- well-versed
- glumpy
- galloped
- centure
- transience
- misplace
- blazer
- thorny
- distort
- disband
- unlove
- fragrance
- coaching
- rotund
- floated
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- cheerless
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