Synonyms of pocketing

pocketing

verb

present participle of pocket

1

as in suppressing

to refrain from openly showing or uttering

pocketed my anger and just let the insult pass

Synonyms & Similar Words

• suppressing
• swallowing
• stifling
• repressing
• controlling
• containing
• managing
• holding back
• choking (back)
• strangling
• sinking
• submerging
• smothering
• curbing
• checking
• governing
• quashing
• quelling
• bridling
• muffling
• bottling up
• squelching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• expressing
• releasing
• venting
• taking out
• loosing
• unleashing

2

as in stealing

to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep

she casually pocketed the note from his desk to read later

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stealing
• swiping
• grabbing
• snatching
• robbing
• pilfering
• filching
• lifting
• appropriating
• purloining
• pinching
• nicking
• misappropriating
• thieving
• hooking
• snitching
• nipping
• boosting
• heisting
• ripping off
• picking
• taking
• hijacking
• running off with
• making off with
• seizing
• plundering
• making away with
• looting
• sacking
• pillaging
• walking off with
• burglarizing
• rifling
• knocking over
• grasping
• rustling
• poaching
• nailing
• shoplifting
• spiriting
• abducting
• mooching
• collaring
• kidnapping
• sponging
• highjacking
• carjacking
• kidnaping
• shanghaiing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• buying
• purchasing
• giving
• contributing
• presenting
• donating
• bestowing
• handing over

3

as in accepting

to put up with (something painful or difficult)

pocketed his wife's messy habits

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accepting
• handling
• tolerating
• standing
• taking
• enduring
• sustaining
• bearing
• absorbing
• stomaching
• swallowing
• supporting
• wearing
• hacking
• biding
• living with
• countenancing
• sticking out
• standing for
• meeting
• going
• lumping (it)
• abiding
• brooking
• sweating out
• allowing
• permitting
• toughing it out
• suffering
• respecting
• acquiescing
• reconciling (to)
• submitting (to)
• yielding (to)
• agreeing (with or to)
• consenting (to)
• capitulating
• assenting (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refusing
• dismissing
• rejecting
• declining
• fighting
• resisting
• opposing
• repudiating
• avoiding
• contesting
• combating
• missing
• turning down
• escaping
• combatting
• evading
• spurning
• dodging
• bypassing
• eluding
• circumventing
• refraining (from)
• abstaining (from)
• forbearing