Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

make against

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.53 in modern English

Syllables: make a-gainst
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To be unfavourable to; to work against.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"If the Authour will but persist in his assumption, the consequence shall make directly against him."
"The neglect of not answering your obliging letter wrote soon after your arrival at Calcutta, I confess makes very bad against me, but the truth is that I could give no other answer to what you mentioned concerning your Nephew than that it was not in my power to serve him […]."
"And as there is no argument so good, but that being carried too far it will make against its purpose […]."
"I must take more exercise than I have done for time past—it will make against my Studies but it is better to have health to preach what I now know ... than to know more and not be able to preach at all."

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

makes against (present, singular) making against (participle, present) made against (participle, past) made against (past)

Questions

What does make against mean?: To be unfavourable to; to work against.

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