Synonyms:
oppose
Meaning: be against; express opposition to; "We oppose the ban on abortion"
Synonyms:
fight, oppose, fight_back, fight_down, defend
Meaning: fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!"
Synonyms:
oppose, counterbalance
Meaning: contrast with equal weight or force
Synonyms:
pit, oppose, match, play_off
Meaning: set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other"
Usage examples
You can oppose an absurdity only with some other absurdity.
"I really am not sufficiently interested in the affair to oppose you. You may take the girl for me.
What we need, in order to oppose them successfully, is a number of sharp sticks which are longer than their own."
"Now let us see what Coo-ee-oh will do to oppose them," continued Lady Aurex, in a voice that betrayed her excitement.
This punishment has for its end to warn, to protect and to oppose cruelty and transgression so that other men may not be tyrannical.
The Stuarts have found few apologists, for the dead cannot pay for praise; and who will, without reward, oppose the tide of popularity?
Why any living mortal in America could oppose a plan that has for its object the abolition of war is simply amazing to the people of Europe.
They therefore were going on, and, if General Gordon and his troops attempted to oppose them, they would fight it out and see which was the strongest.
There is a battery, C, and a key, K. When the key is depressed, current flows through the relay coils at A, but no magnetism is produced, as they oppose each other.
Still he shrank from the outcry and scandal of sending her away; for certainly his wife, if it were but to oppose him, would refuse to believe a word against her cousin.