(a.) Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
(n.) One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe.
(n.) One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(2) The odds are that Zuckerberg will one day face an opponent that can't be bought."
(3) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
(4) He is not the only jailed or exiled opponent of the CCP.
(5) After the impact … I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent,” he said in his submission to the panel, which met on Wednesday, a day after Uruguay had beaten Italy 1-0 in a decisive group-stage match.
(6) Free speech has protected hate speech, and opponents of censorship have consistantly defended the rights of unscrupulous populists and incendiarists.
(7) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
(8) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
(9) His teacher was the charismatic Father Matta el-Meskin (Matthew the Poor), later to become an opponent.
(10) We have to improve our playing style and beat our opponents more easily.” Van Gaal was also careful to provide an exact statement on the England full-back Luke Shaw, who suffered an ankle injury against Arsenal.
(11) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(12) The typical balance of power on Capitol Hill over surveillance is such that opponents of renewing Section 702 face strong political headwinds.
(13) Around the same time Kadyrov said Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oligarch who became an opponent of Putin and now resides in Switzerland after spending a decade in prison, was now his “personal enemy”.
(14) A number of MPs and senior party figures supported a wrecking amendment that would have robbed the motion of its primary purpose, opponents said.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
(16) But what was, perhaps, even more fun than a win in the offing was that the desperation of opponents of same-sex marriage leading up to today’s argument in Obergefell v Hodges was palpable.
(17) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(18) Despite mounting criticism during the Duma campaign, both supporters and opponents acknowledge his perceived achievement in restoring Russia's standing in the world following Boris Yeltsin's chaotic 1990s decade.
(19) These differences in hormonal responses to the fight are attributed to the more aggressive behavior displayed by the victorious opponents (winners) over their defeated competitors (losers).
(20) Koji Uehara, the one without a beard, just picked up from where he left off in the regular season, and continued to destroy opponents.
Overmatch
Definition:
(v. t.) To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish.
(v. t.) To marry (one) to a superior.
(n.) One superior in power; also, an unequal match; a contest in which one of the opponents is overmatched.
Example Sentences:
(1) The overmatching was greatest during the first 5 second period following the conditioning contraction, and during the subsequent 20 seconds it gradually declined to near reference levels.
(2) In the first experiment extension of the arm immediately following conditioning increased the error, in the second it slightly decreased it, although tension continued to be overmatched.
(3) While it's not a guarantee that the Tigers would have won the ALCS had they started Game Three at home leading 2-0 rather than tied 1-1, Ortiz's grand slam altered the entire feel of a series which began with the Red Sox looking utterly overmatched by the Detroit Tigers pitchers.
(4) Vibration, noise, meteorologic conditions overmatch the normal parameters.
(5) Response proportions overmatched reinforcer proportions to a greater extent at long component durations in the closed economy, but there was no systematic effect of component duration on responding in the open economy.
(6) Third, the conditions for efficiency overmatching in a cohort study are different from the conditions in a case-control study.
(7) Regardless, Boston swept an overmatched Colorado team and won their second title in four seasons.
(8) In the north, a depleted Night's Watch seems overmatched against the inexorable Wall advances of Mance Rayder's army of wildlings, which in turn is being trailed by an even more formidable foe: the undead White Walkers.
(9) And as he showed in his bout with Brazeau, the apparently overmatched Dauphin can be an effective counter-puncher.
(10) Russia “could introduce [weapons] much more quickly than the US”, he said, adding that US arms “would be overmatched by Russian escalation”.
(11) Booing your own Championship team when overmatched by an opponent performing at an unbelievable level?
(12) In both experiments subjects reported an accurate match using significantly more than the reference force ("overmatched") after an m.v.c.
(13) Floyd Mayweather coasted to a one-sided unanimous decision over the hopelessly overmatched Andre Berto before 13,395 fans on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
(14) In addition, both the original and the purely algebraic versions of matching theory can be asserted in forms that allow for commonly observed deviations from matching (bias, undermatching, and overmatching).
(15) Firefighters are not yet overmatched, but they are overstretched.