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antagonizean‧tag‧o‧nize (also antagonise British English) /ænˈtæɡənaɪz/ verb [transitive] antagonizeOrigin: 1600-1700 Greek antagonizesthai, from anti- ( ➔ ANTI-) + agonizesthai ‘to fight’ (from agon; ➔ AGONY) VERB TABLEantagonize |
Present | I, you, we, they | antagonize | | he, she, it | antagonizes | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | antagonized | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have antagonized | | he, she, it | has antagonized | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had antagonized | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will antagonize | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have antagonized |
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Present | I | am antagonizing | | he, she, it | is antagonizing | | you, we, they | are antagonizing | Past | I, he, she, it | was antagonizing | | you, we, they | were antagonizing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been antagonizing | | he, she, it | has been antagonizing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been antagonizing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be antagonizing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been antagonizing |
- The police department antagonizes the black community here on an almost regular basis.
- The White House does not want to antagonize Beijing.
- And Victor Amadeus could not afford to antagonize them too deeply, for fear of their power as a class.
- I cravenly agreed, simply in order not to antagonize and perhaps lose him.
- It was done to antagonize, not to amuse.
- Matt wasn't the sort of man to antagonize people.
- The slogans antagonized his customers and often got him into ideological hot water.
- This is effective not because it lowers serum potassium concentration but because it directly antagonizes the membrane depolarizing effect of hyperkalemia.
- You don't want to antagonize rich and powerful Emissaries, especially not on their own ship in deep space.
to deliberately make someone angry► provoke · The dog wouldn't bite you for just petting her. You must have provoked her.provoke somebody into (doing) something · Paul tried to provoke Fletcher into a fight. ► wind somebody up especially British informal to deliberately say or do something in order to make someone angry, especially because you enjoy making them angry: · She's married again? You're winding me up!· He only pretends to be sexist in order to wind me up. ► antagonize to make someone feel angry with you by doing something that they do not like: · The White House does not want to antagonize Beijing.· The police department antagonizes the black community here on an almost regular basis. to annoy someone very much by doing something that they do not like: Do not antagonize your customers. |