make head against

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To attack or take up arms against (someone). obsolete,transitive
    — Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head / Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye / And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him / Bootless home and weather-beaten back.
  2. To resist, oppose. figuratively
    — 1600, Thomas Walkington (attributed), An Exposition of the Two First Verses of the Sixt Chapter to the Hebrewes in Forme of a Dialogue, London: Thomas Man, Sermon 26, p. 348, Such is then this gallaunt and holie confidence of the spouse to braue her enemies, in whose person the Apostle speaking, wee see […] how hee beareth downe euerie high thing which presumeth to make head against God […]

词形变化

makes head against present,singular,third-person making head against participle,present made head against participle,past made head against past
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