Oppose

Definition of oppose:

part of speech: verb

To make objection.

part of speech: verb

To set against; resist; compete with.

part of speech: noun

OPPOSER.

part of speech: verb

To speak or act against; to contend or dispute with; resist; to set up as an obstacle; check.

part of speech: verb

To place before or in the way of: to set against: to place as an obstacle: to resist: to check: to compete with.

Usage examples for oppose:

• I dislike greatly to oppose this rose- colored view of Peter, but, from my own knowledge of the man, I must. "The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him", Paul Leicester Ford.

• Had he lived, had there been other fleets left to oppose him, we would, perhaps, have learned something more of his greatness as a sea officer. "The Mirror of the Sea", Joseph Conrad.

• " It was preposterous in him to oppose my wishes. "Herbert Carter's Legacy", Horatio Alger.

• If he had opposed so distinguished a man as Thrasea, why should not Helvidius oppose him? "Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II", Caius Cornelius Tacitus.