See come up against on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "comes up against",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "coming up against",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "came up against",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "come up against",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "come<,,came,come> up against"
},
"expansion": "come up against (third-person singular simple present comes up against, present participle coming up against, simple past came up against, past participle come up against)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"against\"",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To face (someone, something) in a match, problem, competition or fight."
],
"id": "en-come_up_against-en-verb-ExoV4dJ-",
"links": [
[
"face",
"face"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To face (someone, something) in a match, problem, competition or fight."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "come up against"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "comes up against",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "coming up against",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "came up against",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "come up against",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "come<,,came,come> up against"
},
"expansion": "come up against (third-person singular simple present comes up against, present participle coming up against, simple past came up against, past participle come up against)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs formed with \"against\"",
"English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
"English transitive verbs",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"To face (someone, something) in a match, problem, competition or fight."
],
"links": [
[
"face",
"face"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To face (someone, something) in a match, problem, competition or fight."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "come up against"
}
Download raw JSONL data for come up against meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (a4e883e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.