Thesaurus / run counter to
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synonyms for run counter to
- argue
- assail
- attack
- debate
- defy
- deny
- disagree
- dispute
- face
- fight
- prevent
- protest
- resist
- assault
- bar
- battle
- bombard
- check
- combat
- confront
- contradict
- controvert
- counter
- counterattack
- cross
- disapprove
- encounter
- expose
- gainsay
- hinder
- neutralize
- reverse
- taunt
- thwart
- withstand
- call in question
- face down
- fly in the face of
- frown at
- not countenance
- search out
- speak against
- stand up to
- take a stand
- take issue
- take on
- turn the tables
- vary
- disagree
- diverge
- modify
- contradict
- alter
- contrast
- turn
- qualify
- diversify
- digress
- reverse
- conflict with
- be distinguished from
- be off the beaten path
- be unlike
- bear no resemblance
- clash with
- depart from
- deviate from
- divaricate from
- jar with
- lack resemblance
- not conform
- not look like
- show contrast
- sing a different tune
- stand apart
- take exception
- dissent
- differ
- contradict
- clash
- diverge
- depart
- discord
- counter
- vary
- deviate
- war
- conflict
- disharmonize
- be discordant
- be dissimilar
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How to use run counter to in a sentence
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONDo not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSOn to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONAll the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTA few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONBut if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSThe controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONSomething remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODTo-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYWORDS RELATED TO RUN COUNTER TO
- alter
- be distinguished from
- be off the beaten path
- be unlike
- bear no resemblance
- clash with
- conflict with
- contradict
- contrast
- depart from
- deviate from
- digress
- disagree
- divaricate from
- diverge
- diversify
- jar with
- lack resemblance
- modify
- not conform
- not look like
- qualify
- reverse
- run counter to
- show contrast
- sing a different tune
- stand apart
- take exception
- turn
- vary
- bickering
- bumping heads
- contending
- debating
- demurring
- disaccording
- disagreeing
- discepting
- discording
- disputing
- dissenting
- dividing
- fighting
- going after each other
- going at it
- hitting a clinker
- hitting a sour note
- jarring
- locking horns
- objecting
- opposing
- protest against
- quarrelling
- squabbling
- taking issue
- varying
- warring
- altercated
- battled
- bickered
- brawled
- broke with
- brought action
- clashed
- contended
- contested
- controversialized
- controverted
- debated
- differed
- disaccorded
- discepted
- discorded
- disputed
- dissented
- divided
- fell out
- feuded
- fought
- had words
- haggled
- jumped on
- lay into
- let had it
- logomachized
- objected
- opposed
- paltered
- quarrelled
- quibbled
- ripped
- rowed
- scrapped
- set to
- skirmished
- sparred
- spat
- sued
- took issue
- took on
- warred
- went for the jugular
- wrangled
- zapped
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