"make head against" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "makes head against",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making head against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made head against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made head against",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> head against"
      },
      "expansion": "make head against (third-person singular simple present makes head against, present participle making head against, simple past and past participle made head against)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1740, William Oldys, The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, London, page 28",
          "text": "The next, whose Fate drew on, was Sir James Desmond, who, on the Fourth of August in the above mentioned Year, having made an Inroad upon Muskerry, and taken a great Booty from Sir Cormac Mac Teige, Sheriff of Cork; the said Sheriff making Head against him, recover’d the Booty, wounded Sir James mortally, and took him Prisoner.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To attack or take up arms against (someone)."
      ],
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          "attack",
          "attack#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "take up",
          "take up"
        ],
        [
          "arms",
          "arm#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, obsolete) To attack or take up arms against (someone)."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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,\nSuch 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 […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1715, Richard Bulstrode, “Of Religion”, in Miscellaneous Essays, London: Jonas Browne, page 307",
          "text": "[…] if Children were early instructed, Knowledge would insensibly insinuate it self before their Years had arm’d them with Obstinacy enough to make Head against it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Aldous Huxley, chapter 15, in Island, London: Chatto & Windus, page 280",
          "text": "There was strength enough, he could see, in that small frame to make head against any suffering; a will that would be more than a match for all the swords that fate might stab her with.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To resist, oppose."
      ],
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          "oppose"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To resist, oppose."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make head against"
}

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    {
      "form": "makes head against",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "making head against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made head against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made head against",
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        "past"
      ]
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        "1": "make<,,made> head against"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English terms with obsolete senses",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1740, William Oldys, The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, London, page 28",
          "text": "The next, whose Fate drew on, was Sir James Desmond, who, on the Fourth of August in the above mentioned Year, having made an Inroad upon Muskerry, and taken a great Booty from Sir Cormac Mac Teige, Sheriff of Cork; the said Sheriff making Head against him, recover’d the Booty, wounded Sir James mortally, and took him Prisoner.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attack or take up arms against (someone)."
      ],
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        [
          "attack",
          "attack#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "take up",
          "take up"
        ],
        [
          "arms",
          "arm#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, obsolete) To attack or take up arms against (someone)."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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,\nSuch 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 […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1715, Richard Bulstrode, “Of Religion”, in Miscellaneous Essays, London: Jonas Browne, page 307",
          "text": "[…] if Children were early instructed, Knowledge would insensibly insinuate it self before their Years had arm’d them with Obstinacy enough to make Head against it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Aldous Huxley, chapter 15, in Island, London: Chatto & Windus, page 280",
          "text": "There was strength enough, he could see, in that small frame to make head against any suffering; a will that would be more than a match for all the swords that fate might stab her with.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To resist, oppose."
      ],
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          "oppose",
          "oppose"
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      ],
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        "(figuratively) To resist, oppose."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make head against"
}