opposes
Sayuh-POHZ-izUS/əˈpoʊzɪz/UK/əˈpəʊzɪz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of oppose.
The senator opposes the proposed tax increase on small businesses.
Our neighborhood association opposes the plan to widen the highway.
Note
Every meaning of oppose travels through this form, from resisting a plan to setting one thing against another. In the everyday sense it takes its object directly (she opposes the merger), with no to. Learners often blend it with the pattern is opposed to, which needs the preposition. The older 'set against' sense does take to: the essay opposes reason to passion.
opposes is a form of oppose
oppose, verb: To try to stop the progress of something, or to resist and struggle against it, whether physically or through argument. Full entry
- Spelling
- oppose → opposes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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