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Antagonize   /æntˈægənˌaɪz/   Listen
Antagonize

verb
(past & past part. antagonized; pres. part. antagonozing)
1.
Provoke the hostility of.  Synonym: antagonise.
2.
Act in opposition to.  Synonyms: antagonise, counteract.






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"Antagonize" Quotes from Famous Books



... gently. "You certainly are a comfort. If every one was as splendid as you are we should have a model school. But I do wish I could help Rosa. I can't see why she should hate me so! I must have made some big mistake with her in the first place to antagonize her." ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill

... 'humanity' is not always determined by 'class' or the 'length of one's purse.'" Bluff common sense transforms the class distinction into the "length of the purse" and the class antagonism into trade quarrels. The length of the purse is a purely quantitative distinction, which may perchance antagonize any two individuals of the same class. That the medieval guilds confronted each other on the basis of handicraft is well known. But it is likewise well known that the modern class distinction is by no means based ...
— Selected Essays • Karl Marx

... frightened me in looking into a man's eyes in my whole life. And there is one thing that I have to remember to caution Donald about. He must carry on this contest in a perfectly open, fair, and aboveboard way, and he simply must not antagonize Oka Sayye. There are so many of the Japs. They all look so much alike, and there's a blood brotherhood between them that will make them protect each other to the death against any white man. It wouldn't be safe for Donald to make Oka Sayye hate him. He had far better try to ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

... easy of solution," remarked Arthur. "Goldstein believes that Jones is in the market to buy films. Perhaps he's going to open a motion picture theatre on his island. So the manager didn't want to antagonize a ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne

... refrained from questioning the manager of the Victoria. He feared to antagonize that distinguished person. The Victoria was ...
— The Ragged Edge • Harold MacGrath

... the other was giving a thought to his narrowed future, the pictured dungeons, perhaps, and starvations and brutalities, liable to the imagination. All to be seen was shame for captivity and regret for the right to antagonize. ...
— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

... of having General Giles A. Smith and myself change our line so as to face south, and at the same time I sent Captain George W. Porter to ascertain whether or not the left of General Smith and the right of General Fuller were sufficiently near together to antagonize any force seeking entrance there.... The enemy in front of the Sixteenth Corps rallied in the woods (this is after the first attack) and renewed their attack with increased vigor and bitterness.... The conflict continued for some time, with no appearance ...
— The Battle of Atlanta - and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. • Grenville M. Dodge



Words linked to "Antagonize" :   rile, chafe, annoy, counteract, vex, act, nettle, bother, rag, devil, antagonism, gravel, get to, nark, irritate, get at, move



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