antagonize

/an-tag-uh-nahyz/US // ænˈtæg əˌnaɪz //UK // (ænˈtæɡəˌnaɪz) //

拮抗,对抗,敌视,拮据

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb

1
an·tag·o·nized, an·tag·o·niz·ing.
- : to make hostile or unfriendly; make an enemy or antagonist of: His speech antagonized many voters.
- : to act in opposition to; oppose.

v.无主动词 verb

verbcause problem; oppose

Synonyms

Overcoming resistanceFor some unvaccinated Americans, the FDA approval is the latest in a series of actions and appeals that have fallen flat or further antagonized them.
As I’ve written before, confronting people on social media—in Facebook posts, Twitter replies, Instagram comments—isn’t helpful and can antagonize others.
You will do your friend no favors by antagonizing the mother of her grandchild.
The film acknowledges this wrong, but never antagonizes the child.
If you want this city to prosper, you shouldn’t be antagonizing him.
Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.
Close attachment to autocratic regimes by the West pays short-term dividends but will antagonize generations of Muslims.
Going northward would antagonize Iraqi Sunnis, whom Washington and Baghdad are currently wooing.
So far in the States, he has eschewed the roaring, pumping, and scolding so as not to antagonize his new teammates and opponents.
Diplomatically, though, the big news is that Obama and Netanyahu will not antagonize each other.
He could not indorse the religious ideas taught in them, and he was not there that day to antagonize them.
It is not well to antagonize the priests, who hold us firmly to this law.

/an-tag-uh-nahyz/US // ænˈtæg əˌnaɪz //UK // (ænˈtæɡəˌnaɪz) //

拮抗,对抗,敌视,拮据

v.有主动词 verb

1
an·tag·o·nized, an·tag·o·niz·ing.
- : to make hostile or unfriendly; make an enemy or antagonist of: His speech antagonized many voters.
- : to act in opposition to; oppose.

v.无主动词 verb

verbcause problem; oppose

Synonyms

Overcoming resistanceFor some unvaccinated Americans, the FDA approval is the latest in a series of actions and appeals that have fallen flat or further antagonized them.
As I’ve written before, confronting people on social media—in Facebook posts, Twitter replies, Instagram comments—isn’t helpful and can antagonize others.
You will do your friend no favors by antagonizing the mother of her grandchild.
The film acknowledges this wrong, but never antagonizes the child.
If you want this city to prosper, you shouldn’t be antagonizing him.
Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.
Close attachment to autocratic regimes by the West pays short-term dividends but will antagonize generations of Muslims.
Going northward would antagonize Iraqi Sunnis, whom Washington and Baghdad are currently wooing.
So far in the States, he has eschewed the roaring, pumping, and scolding so as not to antagonize his new teammates and opponents.
Diplomatically, though, the big news is that Obama and Netanyahu will not antagonize each other.
He could not indorse the religious ideas taught in them, and he was not there that day to antagonize them.
It is not well to antagonize the priests, who hold us firmly to this law.