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View synonyms for set against

set against

verb

  1. to balance or compare

    to set a person's faults against his virtues

  2. to cause to be hostile or unfriendly to
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Be or cause someone to be opposed to, as in Civil wars often set brother against brother , or The police chief's critics were set against his officers . [Late 1200s] Also see dead set against .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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