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take against

take against verb: to stop liking or supporting someone; to become unfriendly towards.

Verb

take against (third-person singular simple present takes against, present participle taking against, simple past took against, past participle taking against)

  1. To stop liking or supporting someone; to become unfriendly towards.
    • He took against me when I was promoted over him.

take against meaning in Malayalam

take against in Malayalam

take a dislike to, feel hostile towards, vie with
വിപരീതമാകുക, വെറുപ്പതോന്നുക, ശത്രുത തോന്നുക, വെറുക്കുക, മർമ്മിക്കുക, ദ്വേഷിക്കുക

Forms of take against

third-person singular presenttakes against
present participletaking against
pasttook against
past participletaking against

Questions about take against

What does take against mean?
Take against means to stop liking or supporting someone; to become unfriendly towards.
What is take against in Malayalam?
Take against in Malayalam is വിപരീതമാകുക, വെറുപ്പതോന്നുക, ശത്രുത തോന്നുക. See Take against meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is take against?
Take against is a verb.
What is the past tense of take against?
The past tense of take against is took against.

Words near take against in the dictionary

  1. take across
  2. take action
  3. take advantage
  4. take advantage of
  5. take after
  6. take against
  7. take aim
  8. take air
  9. take aloft
  10. take an axe to
  11. take an l

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Adapted from Wiktionary: take against (page history and authors); take against (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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