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Meanings of antagonize in English

Portuguese
antagonizar
Catalan
sembrar la zitzània
Spanish
contrariar

Act in opposition to.

        antagonizar
        Synonyms
        Examples for "counteract"
        Examples for "counteract"
        1
        Religious engagement, however, may counteract the damaging effects of early life stress.
        Pubmed
        2
        It is important we counteract those words and thoughts with positive ones.
        The Irish Times
        3
        So, I suspect that Newton's first law is really to counteract Aristotle.
        Wired
        4
        It was useless: they could not counteract the effects of the poison.
        The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
        5
        And its cultural role was to counteract the effects of women's liberation.
        The Guardian
        1
        It would throw EU enlargement into crisis and antagonise the candidate states.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Unwilling to antagonise anyone so early in the school year, he seeks compromise.
        The Irish Times
        3
        To modify the ban would antagonise them, depending on the modification.
        The Irish Times
        4
        He did not want to antagonise the fellow, nor encourage him.
        Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
        5
        He will not antagonise his marker just by looking at him.
        The Guardian
        Usage of antagonize in English
        1
        Context: Oral naltrexone can completely antagonize the effects produced by opioid agonists.
        Pubmed
        2
        But it would be better not to antagonize him for the moment.
        The Canadian / Photoplay title of The Land of Promise
        3
        Dr. Harpe laughed good-naturedly; she had no desire to antagonize Mrs. Terriberry.
        The Lady Doc
        4
        I didn't want to antagonize Tyrell further by going to the MCME.
        Devil Bones
        5
        I detested the emperor's wife but knew better than to antagonize her.
        Song of the Nile
        6
        Numb can antagonize Notch signaling to diversify the fates of sister cells.
        Pubmed
        7
        But on SermanyuQ he began to defy Baris and openly antagonize Klingons.
        Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
        8
        Never criticize, antagonize or moralize-andyour company will be sought by everyone.
        Book of Etiquette, Volume II
        9
        Multiple strategies to antagonize the TGFβ pathway are in early-phase oncology trials.
        Pubmed
        10
        Young also seemed to go out of his way to antagonize.
        NY Magazine
        11
        And now she did everything he wanted, including antagonize her children.
        The cottage
        12
        I told him that pressing his case would only antagonize you.
        Iron lace
        13
        Therefore, we hypothesized that apoB48 would be sufficient to antagonize S. aureus QS.
        Pubmed
        14
        THC was also able to antagonize the forskolin-induced elevation of intracellular cAMP concentration.
        Pubmed
        15
        But you don't want to alienate them, you don't want to antagonize them.
        The family: the secret fundamentalism at the heart of american p...
        16
        Filimonov tells him to look indignant at the people & to antagonize them.
        The new yorker
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        Antagonize through the time
        Antagonize across language varieties
        United States of America
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        United Kingdom
        Less common