antagonize
verb (used with object)
to make hostile or unfriendly; make an enemy or antagonist of.
is antagonizing
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present progressiveof antagonize (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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There's no evidence that the community at large is antagonizing the Uzbek lottery winners.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2017
He is the hero of all the Arabs, and your name-calling is antagonizing them.
From Time Magazine Archive
If all those cannot be obtained, the patient must die; the assumption probably being that some unknown person is antagonizing the “doctor” with arts of sorcery.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
Of course, Morrison is antagonizing the banking interests, too.
From All-Wool Morrison by Holman Day
