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Antonyms for come up against
Grammar : Verb |
Definition of come up against
- As in meet : verb happen on
- As in stumble : verb happen upon
- As in taste : verb experience
- As in confront : verb challenge
- She had spent them all, and had come up against the wall of blank despair.
- Extract from : « Brand Blotters » by William MacLeod Raine
- The Exeter team is the best-trained one we'll come up against.
- Extract from : « Hester's Counterpart » by Jean K. Baird
- It was not as if she, like me, had come up against a wall that she could not pass.
- Extract from : « The Great Quest » by Charles Boardman Hawes
- But it will be different when I come up against the American Leaguers.
- Extract from : « Baseball Joe in the World Series » by Lester Chadwick
- Never have I come up against anything like what is going on over there in Canada.
- Extract from : « The Major » by Ralph Connor
- But they had come up against an impenetrable abatis of brush.
- Extract from : « The World with a Thousand Moons » by Edmond Hamilton
- But this was the most difficult proposition that she had ever come up against.
- Extract from : « Exit Betty » by Grace Livingston Hill
- She certainly would be careful not to come up against him again.
- Extract from : « Ditte: Girl Alive! » by Martin Andersen Nexo
- He's got to come up against all sorts of exasperations on his job, too.
- Extract from : « The Sturdy Oak » by Samuel Merwin, et al.
- And the men of the tribe of Juda said to them: Why are you come up against us?
- Extract from : « The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version » by Various
Synonyms for come up against
- accost
- affront
- appreciate
- be exposed to
- beard
- blunder upon
- brave
- brush against
- bump
- bump into
- call one's bluff
- chance
- chance on
- chance upon
- clash
- collide
- come across
- come up against
- confront
- contact
- cross
- dare
- defy
- dig up
- discover
- encounter
- engage
- experience
- face
- face down
- face up to
- face with
- fall in with
- fall upon
- feel
- find
- flout
- front
- get together
- go one-on-one
- go up against
- grapple
- greet
- have knowledge of
- hit
- know
- light
- light upon
- luck
- make a meet
- make my day
- meet
- meet eyeball-to-eyeball
- meet face to face
- meet with
- oppose
- partake of
- perceive
- rendezvous with
- repel
- resist
- rub eyeballs
- run across
- run into
- run up against
- salute
- savor
- scorn
- see
- stand up to
- strike
- stub toe on
- stumble
- tell off
- touch shoulders
- tumble
- turn up
- tussle
- undergo
- withstand
- wrestle
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