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All come up against antonyms

come up a·gainst
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verb come up against

  • surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
  • avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
  • dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
  • back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
  • yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
  • release — to lease again.
  • shun — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
  • disconnect — SCSI reconnect
  • disjoin — to undo or prevent the junction or union of; disunite; separate.
  • let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
  • miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
  • divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
  • separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
  • cancel — If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
  • pass by — go past
  • fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
  • overlook — to fail to notice, perceive, or consider: to overlook a misspelled word.
  • misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
  • abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
  • refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
  • misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
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