“Antagonized” or “Antagonised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “antagonized” and 2 prefer “antagonised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	antagonized	antagonised	Preference
United States	97	3	“antagonized”
United Kingdom	0	100	“antagonised”
India	52	48	“antagonized”
Philippines	100	0	“antagonized”
Canada	100	0	“antagonized”
Australia	0	100	“antagonised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	0	0	Not enough data
New Zealand	0	0	Not enough data
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

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“antagonized”

…Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), which antagonized parts of the right-wing extremist-national…
He increasingly antagonized his supporters with foreign policy
…first, formed in May 1923, antagonized Józef Piłsudski, who resigned his…
…of Marx's scorned opponent seriously antagonized Marxist Party theorists, and so…
…claimed that those same things antagonized many powerful Democrats, so that…
…Arabian-Ifriqiyan army near Tlemcen, he antagonized tensions between the two armies…
…Forever, claiming that it presently antagonized French Canadians.
…the second Cham genocide, further antagonized the Chams and after the…
…for their vitriolic interviews, which antagonized audiences to a point of…
Epinephrine: action antagonized, paradoxical decrease in blood pressure…

“antagonised”

…poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who antagonised locals by criticising their production…
James had already antagonised English protestants with his actions.
This position he antagonised many young Dutch painters for…
…success in the region, which antagonised Mowbray, to Mowbray's "crass incompetence"…
…bitter ethnic divide, his reforms antagonised soldiers in the Tutsi-dominated army,…
…billing as a "true-life story" antagonised conservative critics as, although essentially…
The Kulturkampf antagonised many Protestants as well as…
Antagonised by the German mining of…
…towards plebeians and slaves had antagonised Rome's ruling Patrician caste and…
…for the Germans", those who "antagonised the Germans" and lastly the…

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