#antagonize

• Antagonize — To provoke antagonism, to arouse someone's hostility or opposition through defiant behavior, adverse decisions, or provocative statements. In a medical or biochemical sense, it represents the action of counteracting, neutralizing, or canceling the effect of a substance, hormone, or drug via an opposing agent.
• Antagonized — Having undergone the process of antagonization; having been turned into an opponent or treated with hostility. In biochemistry and pharmacology, it describes a biological receptor, hormone, or enzyme whose natural activity has been completely blocked, neutralized, or inhibited through the intervention of an antagonistic chemical agent.