(~s, juxtaposing, ~d)
If you ~ two contrasting objects, images, or ideas, you place them together or describe them together, so that the differences between them are emphasized. (FORMAL)
The technique Mr Wilson uses most often is to ~ things for dramatic effect...
Contemporary photographs are ~d with a sixteenth century, copper Portuguese mirror.
...art’s oldest theme: the celebration of life ~d with the terror of mortality.
VERB: V pl-n, be V-ed with n, V-ed, also V n with n