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Definition of antagonize in English: antagonize(British antagonise) verb anˈtaɡ(ə)nʌɪzænˈtæɡəˌnaɪz [with object]1Cause (someone) to become hostile. the aim was to antagonize visiting supporters Example sentencesExamples - Till then, find someone else you like reading, and stop reading my blog if it antagonizes you.
- After all, it's a tiny place that earns a substantial part of its living by hosting the enormous EU bureaucracy so it's not the kind of country that stands to benefit from antagonising anybody.
- Such high-level favoritism risks further antagonizing citizens who are fed up with officials helping themselves to public funds.
- But he quickly antagonises local people who want the land to be owned and used for the community's benefit.
- Councils in Bolton and Manchester have also recently come under fire with calls from politicians to get a grip of wardens whose hard-line approach is antagonising motorists and driving shoppers out of the towns.
- The civil-service strikers may indeed draw attention to their employment conditions, but only at the expense of antagonising the people they are supposed to serve because they are extremely unlikely to change the government's plans.
- The biggest drawback to this plan is that it will antagonize opponents of outsourcing.
- I fully admit I have gone out of my way on more than one occasion to needle and to antagonize him.
- No matter how hard he tries, you can't help but feel that he secretly enjoys antagonising his readers.
- She antagonised her civil servants, infuriated her leaders, insulted colleagues.
- She should be able to have fun and do what she wants and not have people antagonising her.
- He liked his neighbour and didn't want to antagonize him.
- It is spending astronomical amounts of money, alienating allies and further antagonizing opponents.
- The other two cats aren't openly hostile to her, but they seem to want to antagonize her.
- He tried antagonising me and being patronising and condescending but he didn't intimidate me.
- Why go out of the way to offend and antagonize religious people?
- I absolve him - though I would not do the same for all his cabinet colleagues - of a desire not to antagonise the voters to whom the Conservative advertisement was meant to appeal.
- He was less aggressive today but we played against a team that also wanted just to play football and not antagonise him.
- I personally don't think we should be given more powers because it would just antagonise people.
- We didn't go out of our way to antagonise him, indeed we tried to avoid all contact.
Synonyms arouse hostility in, alienate, set someone against someone else, estrange, disaffect anger, annoy, provoke, vex, irritate, offend informal aggravate, rile, needle, get someone's back up, make someone's hackles rise, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, rattle someone's cage, get up someone's nose, get in someone's hair, get someone's dander up, get under someone's skin British informal nark, get on someone's wick New Zealand informal rark 2Biochemistry
(of a substance) act as an antagonist of (a substance or its action) two other drugs antagonized the antidepressant-like effect Example sentencesExamples - Another approach is using drugs to antagonise the peripheral effects of opioids so that bowel dysfunction is reversed, speeding discharge from hospital.
- For those people who already have substantial hearing loss, researchers are also optimizing compounds that antagonize specific cell cycle proteins resulting in new cell division or proliferation.
- They also found that ADHD children responded variably to different B vitamins, with pyridoxine and thiamine antagonizing each other's benefits.
- Thus neurotransmitters and hormones are matched to their appropriate targets, and many drugs work by mimicking these natural substances or antagonizing them by blocking the receptors.
- For example, oxytocin's calming effects are enhanced by estrogen, but antagonized by androgen, she notes.
Origin Mid 18th century (in the sense 'struggle against'): from Greek antagōnizesthai, from ant- 'against' + agōnizesthai 'struggle' (from agōn 'contest'). Definition of antagonize in US English: antagonize(British antagonise) verbænˈtæɡəˌnaɪzanˈtaɡəˌnīz [with object]1Cause (someone) to become hostile. he antagonized many colleagues during the budget wars Example sentencesExamples - The civil-service strikers may indeed draw attention to their employment conditions, but only at the expense of antagonising the people they are supposed to serve because they are extremely unlikely to change the government's plans.
- I fully admit I have gone out of my way on more than one occasion to needle and to antagonize him.
- After all, it's a tiny place that earns a substantial part of its living by hosting the enormous EU bureaucracy so it's not the kind of country that stands to benefit from antagonising anybody.
- She should be able to have fun and do what she wants and not have people antagonising her.
- She antagonised her civil servants, infuriated her leaders, insulted colleagues.
- We didn't go out of our way to antagonise him, indeed we tried to avoid all contact.
- He liked his neighbour and didn't want to antagonize him.
- Councils in Bolton and Manchester have also recently come under fire with calls from politicians to get a grip of wardens whose hard-line approach is antagonising motorists and driving shoppers out of the towns.
- It is spending astronomical amounts of money, alienating allies and further antagonizing opponents.
- Why go out of the way to offend and antagonize religious people?
- But he quickly antagonises local people who want the land to be owned and used for the community's benefit.
- I absolve him - though I would not do the same for all his cabinet colleagues - of a desire not to antagonise the voters to whom the Conservative advertisement was meant to appeal.
- The other two cats aren't openly hostile to her, but they seem to want to antagonize her.
- Till then, find someone else you like reading, and stop reading my blog if it antagonizes you.
- He tried antagonising me and being patronising and condescending but he didn't intimidate me.
- He was less aggressive today but we played against a team that also wanted just to play football and not antagonise him.
- The biggest drawback to this plan is that it will antagonize opponents of outsourcing.
- No matter how hard he tries, you can't help but feel that he secretly enjoys antagonising his readers.
- Such high-level favoritism risks further antagonizing citizens who are fed up with officials helping themselves to public funds.
- I personally don't think we should be given more powers because it would just antagonise people.
Synonyms arouse hostility in, alienate, set someone against someone else, estrange, disaffect - 1.1Biochemistry (of a substance) act as an antagonist of (a substance or its action)
two other drugs antagonized the antidepressantlike effect Example sentencesExamples - Another approach is using drugs to antagonise the peripheral effects of opioids so that bowel dysfunction is reversed, speeding discharge from hospital.
- They also found that ADHD children responded variably to different B vitamins, with pyridoxine and thiamine antagonizing each other's benefits.
- For example, oxytocin's calming effects are enhanced by estrogen, but antagonized by androgen, she notes.
- Thus neurotransmitters and hormones are matched to their appropriate targets, and many drugs work by mimicking these natural substances or antagonizing them by blocking the receptors.
- For those people who already have substantial hearing loss, researchers are also optimizing compounds that antagonize specific cell cycle proteins resulting in new cell division or proliferation.
Origin Mid 18th century (in the sense ‘struggle against’): from Greek antagōnizesthai, from ant- ‘against’ + agōnizesthai ‘struggle’ (from agōn ‘contest’). |