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View definitions for come up against

come up against

verb as in stumble

verb as in taste

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How delicious it is when when pulp-fiction, True Romance notions of “solid husband” come up against lived lives.

Seems as if K. was beginning to come up against those political forces which have ever been a British Commander's bane.

Whenever I come up against Cupid, experience has taught me to retire deferentially, and wait until the love-fever has abated.

I am therefore come up against thee in mine own right, even to recover mine own inheritance out of thine hand.

Here again we come up against the morality of man; will he continue to poison himself with absinthe or will he abstain?

A flat soft iron plate armature is hinged so as to come up against the pole pieces when attracted.

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On this page you'll find 118 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to come up against, such as: accost, defy, encounter, meet, oppose, and repel.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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