make head against

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(transitive, obsolete) To attack or take up arms against (someone). / (figuratively) To resist, oppose.

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At dawn the militia vowed to make head against the tyrant's forces.

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意味（1）

(transitive, obsolete) To attack or take up arms against (someone).

Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head / Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye / And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him / Bootless home and weather-beaten back.

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意味（2）

(figuratively) To resist, oppose.

Such is then this gallaunt and holie confidence of the spouse to braue her enemies, in whose person the Apostle speaking, wee see […] how hee beareth downe euerie high thing which presumeth to make head against God […]

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makes head against （ present singular third-person ）

making head against （ participle present ）

made head against （ participle past ）

made head against （ past ）