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Definition:
- [verb] maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future"
Synonyms: postulate
- [verb] have an argument about something
Synonyms: argue, debate, fence
- [verb] to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race"
Synonyms: contest, repugn
- [verb] compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
Synonyms: compete, vie
- [verb] come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"
Synonyms: cope, get by, make out, make do, grapple, deal, manage
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Related Words:
- stickle
- spar
- quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble
- quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate
- oppose
- challenge, dispute, gainsay
- try for, go for
- play
- run off
- race, run
- rival
- emulate
- equal, touch, rival, match
- improvise, extemporize
- fend
- hack, cut
- scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by, rub along
- meet, match, cope with
