make sb hostile

Frequency: 6.57.4 per million words

To cause someone to become hostile.

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Examples (10)

  • The experience has made him generally hostile to women.
  • The government's new policies made the public hostile towards the administration.
  • Constant criticism from his boss made the employee hostile and uncooperative.
  • Her betrayal made him deeply hostile whenever her name was mentioned.
  • If you keep ignoring their concerns, it will only make them more hostile.
  • Spreading false rumors is a sure way to make your neighbors hostile.
  • What could have made such a friendly dog so hostile?
  • The unfair treatment is making the prisoners hostile.
  • His condescending attitude quickly made everyone in the room hostile.
  • Decades of neglect made the community hostile to any outside intervention.