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set someone/something against someone/something

to cause one person or group to oppose another. His health-care plan would divide older Americans and set senior against senior. The disagreement has turned into a public feud that has set members against each other.

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I felt my whole spirit set against him, and I began to kick, and plunge, and rear as I had never done before, and we had a regular fight; for a long time he stuck to the saddle and punished me cruelly with his whip and spurs, but my blood was thoroughly up, and I cared for nothing he could do if only I could get him off. Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context It was her best face physically that was now set against the south wind. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context If he is very strongly set against the work, perhaps it is better that he should take the opportunity there is now to break his articles. Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context More results

References in classic literature

I felt my whole spirit set against him, and I began to kick, and plunge, and rear as I had never done before, and we had a regular fight; for a long time he stuck to the saddle and punished me cruelly with his whip and spurs, but my blood was thoroughly up, and I cared for nothing he could do if only I could get him off.

Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context

It was her best face physically that was now set against the south wind.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

If he is very strongly set against the work, perhaps it is better that he should take the opportunity there is now to break his articles.

Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

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