counteracting, combating, blunting, neutralizing, refuting, rebutting, thwarting, quelling, curbing, dismissing, dispelling, rejecting, bolstering, negating, debunking, disproving, defusing, undercutting, deflect, overcoming, justifying, responding, tackling, reinforcing, squashing, counterbalancing, eradicating, defending, stem, stopping, undermining, suppressing, squelch, discrediting, preventing, rebuffing, downplayed, curtailing, resisting, confronting, reenforce, repelling, reversing, lessening, mitigating, quashing, tempering, tamp down, deterring, assuaging, stymie, appeasing, foiling, stanching, ignoring, taming, allaying, asserting, alleviating, avoiding, stave off, reining, subduing, boosting, sidestepping, buttressing, minimizing, fueling, dealing, ameliorating, belittling, addressing, dissuading, disavowing, defeating, ridding, eliminating, contradicting, scoffed, spurring, reacting, denying, legitimizing, outfoxing, succumbing, highlighting, belying, ridiculing, averting, detecting, reiterating, predicating, attributing, fortifying, fend, snuffing, controlling, quieting, repulsing, destabilizing, defang, silencing, licensing, branding, combination, fatherhood, hybrid, influencing, interweaving, modality, mode, ownership, selling, solicitation, tableau, toning, acting, adaptations, additive, advertising, aggressions, allusions

recriminative, recriminatory