polarize
bump heads, confront, contend, contrast, counteract, face, front, lie opposite, match, meet head-on, oppose, pose against, put in opposition, set over against, stand opposed,
amnesty - absolution, exculpation, excuse, exemption, exoneration, grace, immunity, impunity, indemnity, pardon, redemption, remission, remission of sin, reprieve, shrift,
out of joint - amiss, askew, awry, broken, cock-eyed, convulsed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disjointed, dislocated, disordered, disorderly,
crushing - Herculean, annoying, arduous, awkward, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, chastening, disconcerting, disturbing, embarrassing, forced, gruelling, hard-earned,
gamester - adventurer, archer, athlete, ballplayer, batter, battery, better, cardsharp, catcher, centre, coach, competitor, end, gambler, guard,
ecumenicist - freethinker, latitudinarian, liberal, libertarian ,
shoddily - atrociously, badly, flagrantly, grossly, meanly, miserably, monstrously, poorly ,
had it - dead, defunct, done for, down the drain, expired, extinct, gone, kaput, no more, vanished ,
rubber - ace, bag, baleen, battledore, best bower, birth control device, blubber, bower, breeze, butt-in, butter, cards, chewing gum, clay, clubs,
oxen - beef, bison, bossy, bovine, buffalo, bull, calf, cattle, cow, critter, heifer, kine, maverick, milker, ox,
to the marrow - all out, all the way, flat out, utterly, with a vengeance ,
out of joint - amiss, askew, awry, broken, cock-eyed, convulsed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disjointed, dislocated, disordered, disorderly,
crushing - Herculean, annoying, arduous, awkward, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, chastening, disconcerting, disturbing, embarrassing, forced, gruelling, hard-earned,
gamester - adventurer, archer, athlete, ballplayer, batter, battery, better, cardsharp, catcher, centre, coach, competitor, end, gambler, guard,
ecumenicist - freethinker, latitudinarian, liberal, libertarian ,
shoddily - atrociously, badly, flagrantly, grossly, meanly, miserably, monstrously, poorly ,
had it - dead, defunct, done for, down the drain, expired, extinct, gone, kaput, no more, vanished ,
rubber - ace, bag, baleen, battledore, best bower, birth control device, blubber, bower, breeze, butt-in, butter, cards, chewing gum, clay, clubs,
oxen - beef, bison, bossy, bovine, buffalo, bull, calf, cattle, cow, critter, heifer, kine, maverick, milker, ox,
to the marrow - all out, all the way, flat out, utterly, with a vengeance ,