make sb hostile
Frequency: 6.57.4 per million words
To cause someone to become hostile.
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- 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.