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Adjective favored has 3 senses
- favored, favorite, favourite, pet, preferred - preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"
Antonym: unloved (indirect, via loved)
- advantaged, favored - blessed with advantages; "she is more advantaged than her cousin"; "born into the favored classes"
Antonym: underprivileged (indirect, via privileged)
- favored, fortunate, golden - supremely favored or fortunate; "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust"
Antonyms: cursed, curst (indirect, via blessed)
Verb favor has 4 senses
- prefer, favor, favour - promote over another; "he favors his second daughter"
--1 is one way to promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
Sample sentences:
Sam cannot favor Sue
The chefs favor the vegetables
- favor, favour - consider as the favorite; "The local team was favored"
--2 is one way to see, consider, reckon, view, regard
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- favor, favour - treat gently or carefully
--3 is one way to spare, save
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot favor Sue
- privilege, favor, favour - bestow a privilege upon
--4 is one way to permit, allow, let, countenance
Sample sentence:
They favor him to write the letter
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