1. To incur the dislike of; provoke hostility or enmity in: antagonized her officemates with her rude behavior.
2. To counteract.
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Example sentence - She would not let her husbands daughters antagonize her.
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Antagonize - pflegal@yahoo.com
infuriate, exasperate, aggravate, irritate, exacerbate, antagonize
The policeman had to antagonize the criminal in order to get him to cooperate.