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What does hostility mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
  2. (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
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The left-arm fast bowler, extracting much lift, bowled with hostility to contain the batsmen.
There is a politically correct hostility against streaming students and against grade acceleration.
My message is that hostility can be turned to our advantage if we're better, smarter, wiser at the end of the season.
By the second year, this xenophobic propensity has ripened into expressions of full-blown fear and hostility.
Now think of some possible ways to link being gay, engaging in risk behaviors, experiencing hostility and alienation.
We also tested intercolony hostility between nonmarked workers of two original colonies.

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