Antonyms for come up against


Grammar : Verb


Definition of come up against

  • As in meet : verb happen on
  • As in stumble : verb happen upon
  • As in taste : verb experience
  • As in confront : verb challenge
Example sentences :
  • She had spent them all, and had come up against the wall of blank despair.
  • Extract from : « Brand Blotters » by William MacLeod Raine
  • The Exeter team is the best-trained one we'll come up against.
  • Extract from : « Hester's Counterpart » by Jean K. Baird
  • It was not as if she, like me, had come up against a wall that she could not pass.
  • Extract from : « The Great Quest » by Charles Boardman Hawes
  • But it will be different when I come up against the American Leaguers.
  • Extract from : « Baseball Joe in the World Series » by Lester Chadwick
  • Never have I come up against anything like what is going on over there in Canada.
  • Extract from : « The Major » by Ralph Connor
  • But they had come up against an impenetrable abatis of brush.
  • Extract from : « The World with a Thousand Moons » by Edmond Hamilton
  • But this was the most difficult proposition that she had ever come up against.
  • Extract from : « Exit Betty » by Grace Livingston Hill
  • She certainly would be careful not to come up against him again.
  • Extract from : « Ditte: Girl Alive! » by Martin Andersen Nexo
  • He's got to come up against all sorts of exasperations on his job, too.
  • Extract from : « The Sturdy Oak » by Samuel Merwin, et al.
  • And the men of the tribe of Juda said to them: Why are you come up against us?
  • Extract from : « The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version » by Various

Synonyms for come up against

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