Back and Contend with

Opposite meaning terms

Back verb - To promote the interests or cause of.

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Contend with is an antonym for back.

Nearby Words: backward, backing, backed, backside, backwards

Contend with verb - To strive to reduce or eliminate.

Usage example: medical missionaries who daily contend with disease and poverty

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Back is an antonym for contend with.

Release of Shaun was pushed back a few weeks so as not to contend with the release of Dawn, due to the similar nature of the films.

Source: Dueling Works / Film Cross Genre
Also doubling as a Brick Joke: in one episode, Garfield & Nermal contend with mutant guppies, who they defeat by chasing them back into the sewer.

Source: Western Animation / Garfield and Friends
You'll almost never do that back because by the time you get Imps you not only have better units to use en masse, you also have to contend with the aforementioned area-of-effect attacks.

Source: Video Game / GrimGrimoire

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