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Definition of Antagonise

1. Verb. Act in opposition to.

2. Verb. Provoke the hostility of. "The performance is likely to antagonise Sue"; "Don't antagonize your boss"

Definition of Antagonise

1. Verb. (U.K.) (alternative spelling of antagonize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antagonise

ant mill ant mound ant rattan ant sand ant shrike ant thrush ant thrushes ant venoms anta antacid

antacids antacrid antae antagomir antagomirs antagonise (current term) antagonised antagonises antagonising antagonism

antagonisms antagonist antagonistic antagonistic effect antagonistic muscle antagonistic muscles antagonistic reflexes antagonistically antagonistick antagonists

Literary usage of Antagonise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1876)
"One force does not antagonise another. They cannot clash. ... Prayer does not antagonise gravitation. It cannot overturn the pyramid, nor pluck the moon ..."

2. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery, and Their Allied Sciences, for by New Sydenham Society (1873)
"Beyond this interval atropine does not antagonise physostigmine. ... Doses of half a grain of atropine antagonise one and a half time the minimum lethal ..."

3. The Bookman P (1908)
""antagonise" and "commutation" appear to be quite blameless. ... "antagonise" is not one of them. As for our use of "commutation": "Why," inquires the ..."

4. Materia medica: Physiological and Applied by John James Drysdale (1884)
"Or in opium- poisoning it may be rational to give coffee, combined with blows on the palms of the hand and forced walking, to antagonise the narcotic effect ..."

5. The Journal of the British Homoeopathic Society by British Homoeopathic Society (1882)
"He says that a minute dose of a medicine will not antagonise the effect of a large dose of the same, or of a similarly acting drug. ..."

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