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Affront :: Affront (n.) An encounter either friendly or hostile.

Hostilize :: Hostilize (v. t.) To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.

Repugnant :: Repugnant (a.) Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature..

Assail :: Assail (v. t.) To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like..

Board :: Board (n.) To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way..

Hostility :: Hostility (n.) State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.

Descent :: Descent (n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy..

Adverse :: Adverse (a.) In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse..

Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

Encounter :: Encounter (v. t.) A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter..

Mask :: Mask (v. t.) To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out..

Fortify :: Fortify (v. t.) To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces..

Surround :: Surround (v. t.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city..

Assail :: Assail (v. t.) To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery..

Decursion :: Decursion (n.) A flowing; also, a hostile incursion..

Antisacerdotal :: Antisacerdotal (a.) Hostile to priests or the priesthood.

Foe :: Foe (n.) An enemy in war; a hostile army.

Enmity :: Enmity (n.) The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

Friend :: Friend (n.) One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address..

Oppugnant :: Oppugnant (a.) Tending to awaken hostility; hostile; opposing; warring.

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