Contend: alternatives and connections

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

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The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

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To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords frui…

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To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

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To argue pertinaciously.

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To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

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Fertile. See Battel, a.

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A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

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A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B.…

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To clamor; to contest noisily.

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An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message con…

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To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

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of Cut

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To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

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To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wra…

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A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other.

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Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.

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To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…

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To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

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Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, deg…

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To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.

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That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.

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A fiend.

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A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

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To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…

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To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

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A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

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To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.

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To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.

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Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.

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To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

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To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.

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A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

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To raze.

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A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

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of Run

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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

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To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

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A seat of any kind.

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To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.

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An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in…

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To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

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To separate combatants by intervening.

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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A tournament.

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To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.

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To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.

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To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.

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Ware; aware.

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To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.

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A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.

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A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.

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To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

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To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

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Capable of being contested; debatable.

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Capable of being contested; debatable.

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The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.

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The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.

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The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting…

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The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting…

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To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize…

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To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.

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To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.

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To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

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To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.

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To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

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To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize…

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To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

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A covering for the head.

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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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To engage in combat for; to strive for.

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That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.

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To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…

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To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.

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The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

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Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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To fight against; to oppose; to resist.

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To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

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To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.

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