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agonist
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the principal character in a work of fiction
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Other meanings
2. noun
someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon)
3. noun
a muscle that contracts while another relaxes
4. noun
(biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction
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