- antagonize, antagonise - provoke the hostility of; "Don't antagonize your boss"
--1 is one way to annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun antagonism1, noun antagonism3
The performance is likely to antagonize Sue
- antagonize, antagonise, counteract - act in opposition to
--2 is one way to act, move
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody