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Adversary :: Adversary (n.) One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.

Opponent :: Opponent (a.) Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic..

Imparlance :: Imparlance (n.) Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long been merely to obtain further time to plead, or answer to the allegations of the opposite party..

Opposite :: Opposite (n.) One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist.

Liberal :: Liberal (n.) One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig..

Opposer :: Opposer (n.) One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.

Foe :: Foe (n.) One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion..

Papist :: Papist (n.) A Roman catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents.

Contrary :: Contrary (n.) An opponent; an enemy.

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully..

Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent..

Opponent :: Opponent (n.) One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe.

Encounterer :: Encounterer (n.) One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist.

Poll :: Poll (v. t.) To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent..

Touchdown :: Touchdown (n.) The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal .

Antichrist :: Antichrist (n.) A denier or opponent of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming..

Contestant :: Contestant (n.) One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

Touchback :: Touchback (n.) The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.

Withstander :: Withstander (n.) One who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a resisting power..

Antagonist :: Antagonist (n.) One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent..

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