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make against

make against verb: to be unfavourable to; to work 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)
    • The neglect of not answering your obliging letter wrote soon after your arrival at Calcutta, I confess makes very bad against me, but the truth is that I could give no other answer to what you mentioned concerning your Nephew than that it was not in my power to serve him […].1779, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 83

Forms of make against

third-person singular presentmakes against
present participlemaking against
past participlemade against
pastmade against

Questions about make against

What does make against mean?
Make against means to be unfavourable to; to work against.
What part of speech is make against?
Make against is a verb.
What is the past tense of make against?
The past tense of make against is made against.

Words near make against in the dictionary

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

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