antagonism

Converse of object

• arouse: A GREAT ARMY OF BUILDERS From the outset the long view taken by these leaders of the Church aroused antagonism.
• overcome: There is no evidence that the EU has succeeded in overcoming the national antagonisms between the major capitalist classes in Western Europe.
• fuel: The cycle of violence has contributed to an atmosphere of extreme mistrust and polarization, which has fuelled further antagonism and violence.
• grow: The Irish attended the proceedings in spite of growing Anglo-Irish antagonism.
• create: She said, we don't want to create any antagonism.
• cause: At the moment we can only use police officers to move them on, which just moves the problem elsewhere and causes antagonism.

Preposition: between

• class: There is no evidence that the EU has succeeded in overcoming the national antagonisms between the major capitalist classes in Western Europe.
• people: As a result there is a deep antagonism between the two peoples.
• specie: Antagonism between two species of larval trematode in the same snail.
• labor: This is partly because they leave untouched the fundamental antagonism between labor and capital.
• nation: Disputes of a personal and family nature and antagonism between nations can escalate into ritualized or even real fight.

Adjective modifier

• irreconcilable: Within a caste society there is an irreconcilable antagonism between the interests of the various castes.
• mutual: So the relationship has to be an equable one - for who wants to be locked into mutual antagonism for a decade?
• racial: They have failed to respond to the immense new challenge of world poverty and racial antagonism.
• fundamental: Such is the fundamental antagonism of our epoch taught us by Marxism.
• religious: There are profound national and religious antagonisms between them.
• deep: As a result there is a deep antagonism between the two peoples.

Noun used with modifier

class: This is surely an echo of old style class antagonism.

Preposition: in

society: Marxists insist that there is a fundamental antagonism in society between the capitalist class and the working class.

Preposition: of

interest: I cannot conceive any point which can arise in the immediate future which would bring ourselves and the Germans into antagonism of interests.