📖 Definitions of "Up against"
preposition
- 1
Facing; challenging, or opposing.
"If you try to change the school schedule like that, you'll be up against legions of angry parents."
- 2
In contact with, abutting.
"If the tree grows up against the garden wall then either the tree will be crowded and stunted or the wall will be pushed out."
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