PHRASALVERBS
militate against sth (formal) to prevent sth; to make it difficult for sth to happen or exist:
The supervisor's presence militated against a relaxed atmosphere.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for militate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is militate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, militate is tagged as verb.
Does militate appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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