Antonyms for antagonize

Grammar : Verb

Spell : an-tag-uh-nahyz

Phonetic Transcription : ænˈtæg əˌnaɪz

Definition of antagonize

Origin : 1630s, "to compete with," from Greek antagonizesthai "to struggle against, oppose, be a rival" (see antagonist). Meaning "to struggle against continuously" is recorded from 1742. Related: Antagonized; antagonizing.

verb cause problem; oppose

Example sentences :

We do not know where we are nor who they are, but we must do nothing to antagonize them.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various

Profits as a goal for the long run do not antagonize moral principles.
Extract from : « Creating Capital » by Frederick L. Lipman

What possessed the woman to antagonize everyone with whom she came in touch?
Extract from : « Peggy Stewart at School » by Gabrielle E. Jackson

Thoroughly angry, Hillard was not a happy man to antagonize.
Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath

Such patriotism as this, we may say, does not antagonize internationalism.
Extract from : « The Psychology of Nations » by G.E. Partridge

It might antagonize all his party, as he is one of the most influential of the local bosses.
Extract from : « Mary Ware's Promised Land » by Annie Fellows Johnston

It is death to those who antagonize it, and it is death to them that uphold it.
Extract from : « Princess Zara » by Ross Beeckman

And then, too, we can't afford to antagonize the Gehan Federation.
Extract from : « The Unnecessary Man » by Gordon Randall Garrett

You felt that you could not afford to antagonize Mr. Sawyer.
Extract from : « Old Ebenezer » by Opie Read

First, how can temperance work "antagonize the interests of the Company?"
Extract from : « The Story of a Dark Plot » by A. L. O. C.

Synonyms for antagonize

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