Usually means: Make or become unfriendly, antagonistic.
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  1. hostilize: Wordnik
  2. hostilize: Wiktionary
  3. Hostilize: Dictionary.com
  4. Hostilize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Hostilize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. hostilize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Hostilize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. hostilize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. hostilize: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Hostilize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Hostilize: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hostilize)

▸ verb:  (obsolete) To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.

Similar:
enemy, inodiate, alienize, anger, abalienate, antagonize, poison, hereticize, embitter, befoe, more...

Opposite:
befriend, welcome, embrace, include, accommodate

Types:
antagonize, provoke, harass, torment, taunt, vex, chafe, pique, more...

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Similar:
enemy, inodiate, alienize, anger, abalienate, antagonize, poison, hereticize, embitter, befoe, more...

Opposite:
befriend, welcome, embrace, include, accommodate

Types:
antagonize, provoke, harass, torment, taunt, vex, chafe, pique, more...



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