come up against

synonyms for come up against

On this page you'll find 118 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to come up against, such as: accost, defy, encounter, meet, oppose, and repel.

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How delicious it is when when pulp-fiction, True Romance notions of “solid husband” come up against lived lives.
The Real Lessons Of Portnoy’s Complaint | Bernard Avishai | August 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Seems as if K. was beginning to come up against those political forces which have ever been a British Commander's bane.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
Whenever I come up against Cupid, experience has taught me to retire deferentially, and wait until the love-fever has abated.
The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le Queux

I am therefore come up against thee in mine own right, even to recover mine own inheritance out of thine hand.
The Holy War made by Shaddai upon Diabolus | John Bunyan
Here again we come up against the morality of man; will he continue to poison himself with absinthe or will he abstain?
Twentieth Century Socialism | Edmond Kelly
A flat soft iron plate armature is hinged so as to come up against the pole pieces when attracted.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 | Various

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