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made against

made against is the simple past and past participle of make against.

Meaning of make against

Verb

make against (third-person singular simple present makes against, present participle making against, simple past and past participle made against)

  1. (archaic) To be unfavourable to; to work against.
    • If the Authour will but persist in his assumption, the consequence shall make directly against him.1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)

Questions about made against

What is made against the simple past and past participle of?
Made against is the simple past and past participle of make against.

Words near made against in the dictionary

  1. made a time
  2. made a Virginia fence
  3. made a virtue of necessity
  4. made a wrong turn at Albuquerque
  5. made after
  6. made against
  7. made all the difference
  8. made all the running
  9. made amends
  10. made an appearance
  11. made an ass of

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Adapted from Wiktionary: made against (page history and authors); make against (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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