Definition of contends Contends
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What does contends mean?
Part of speech
đŸ”¤- contends, verb, present, 3rd person singular of contend (infinitive).
WordNet
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| contend - be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country" | ||
| fight, struggle | ||
| drive back, fight off, rebuff, repulse, repel reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" | ||
| bear down exert a force or cause a strain upon; "This tax bears down on the lower middle class" | ||
| fistfight fight with the fists; "The man wanted to fist-fight" | ||
| join battle engage in a conflict; "The battle over health care reform was joined" | ||
| tug struggle in opposition; "She tugged and wrestled with her conflicts" | ||
| fight down, fight back, fight, oppose, defend defend oneself | ||
| get back, settle take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" | ||
| fight back defend oneself | ||
| battle, combat battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget" | ||
| war make or wage war | ||
| assail, attack attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" | ||
| duel fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman; "In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters" | ||
| joust joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback | ||
| chicken-fight, chickenfight fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | ||
| tourney engage in a tourney | ||
| feud carry out a feud; "The two professors have been feuding for years" | ||
| skirmish engage in a skirmish | ||
| bandy discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult questions" | ||
| fence fight with fencing swords | ||
| box engage in a boxing match | ||
| spar fight verbally; "They were sparring all night" | ||
| scuffle, tussle fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters; "the drunken men started to scuffle" | ||
| wrestle engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate; "I wrestled with this decision for years" | ||
| wage, engage get caught; "make sure the gear is engaged" | ||
| contend - maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future" | ||
| postulate | ||
| claim take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" | ||
| contend - have an argument about something | ||
| argue, debate, fence | ||
| converse, discourse carry on a conversation | ||
| take issue, differ, disagree, dissent be different; "These two tests differ in only one respect" | ||
| stickle dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points) | ||
| spar fight verbally; "They were sparring all night" | ||
| bicker, brabble, pettifog, squabble, niggle, quibble argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" | ||
| altercate, argufy, quarrel, dispute, scrap have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" | ||
| oppose be against; express opposition to; "We oppose the ban on abortion" | ||
| contend - compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | ||
| compete, vie | ||
| try for, go for make an attempt at achieving something; "She tried for the Olympics" | ||
| play engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously; "They played games on their opponents"; "play the stock market"; "play with her feelings"; "toy with an idea" | ||
| run off decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff | ||
| race, run compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon this year"; "let's race and see who gets there first" | ||
| rival be the rival of, be in competition with; "we are rivaling for first place in the race" | ||
| emulate compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with; "This artist's drawings cannot emulate his water colors" | ||
| rival, equal, match, touch be the rival of, be in competition with; "we are rivaling for first place in the race" | ||
| contend - to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race" | ||
| contest, repugn | ||
| oppose be against; express opposition to; "We oppose the ban on abortion" | ||
| gainsay, dispute, challenge raise a formal objection in a court of law | ||
| contend - come to terms with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day" | ||
| cope, get by, make out, make do, grapple, deal, manage | ||
| act, move behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" | ||
| extemporize, improvise perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding" | ||
| fend try to manage without help; "The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died" | ||
| hack, cut cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day" | ||
| rub along, scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeeze by, squeak by manage one's existence barely; "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary" | ||
| cope with, match, meet be equal or harmonize; "The two pieces match" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary đŸ“˜
- contend (v. i.)
To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight. - contend (v. i.)
To struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend. - contend (v. i.)
To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue. - contend (v. t.)
To struggle for; to contest.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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contend
To attack as false or wrong. -
contend
To fight or argue in order to get a purpose.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary đŸ“•
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contend
kon-tend′, v.i. to strive: to struggle in emulation or in opposition: to dispute or debate (with against, for, with, about): to urge one's course.—ns. Contend′ent, Contend′er, one who contends.—p.adj. Contend′ing, striving.—n. Conten′tion, a violent straining after any object: strife: debate.—adj. Conten′tious, quarrelsome.—adv. Conten′tiously.—n. Conten′tiousness. [L. contendĕre, -tentum—con, with, tendĕre, to stretch.]
Part of speech
đŸ”¤- contend, verb, present, 1st person singular of contend (infinitive).
- contend, verb (infinitive).
