(v. t.) To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
(v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
(v. t.) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
(v. i.) To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.
(n.) Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
(n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
(2) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
(3) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
(4) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(5) This is contested by the report of three cases of dilatation of Stensen's duct complicated by lithiasis and stenosis, with associated canalar pseudo-cysts.
(6) But in each party there are major issues to be dealt with as the primary phase of the contests slips gradually into the rear-view mirror.
(7) It was not just that there was only one female candidate – Berger – across four contests.
(8) Who's backing who in the Tory leadership contest The dramatic events have put May well in the lead in parliament, with the public backing of well over 100 MPs, including 10 cabinet ministers, followed by Leadsom, with just under 40 MPs, and then Michael Gove and Stephen Crabb with over 20.
(9) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.
(10) His formal entry into the contest marks a key moment in the nascent race for the Republican nomination, which is set to be the most congested presidential primary either party has held since 1976.
(11) 9.59am GMT Summary We’ll leave you with a summary of what transpired here throughout the day: • Julia Gillard announced a contest for her position as prime minister following calls by Simon Crean, a senior minister in her government, for her to be replaced by her predecessor, Kevin Rudd • Shortly before the ballot was to take place Kevin Rudd announced he would not stand for the Labor Party leadership , re-iterating his promise to the Australian people that he would not challenge Julia Gillard • When it came time for the ballot, Gillard was the only person who stood for the leadership and she and her deputy Wayne Swan were elected unopposed .
(12) Buhari has described himself as a “converted democrat” who repeatedly contested and lost elections after civilian rule was restored 16 years ago.
(13) This study analyzed the cost-effectiveness and distribution of costs by program stage of three smoking cessation programs: a smoking cessation class; an incentive-based quit smoking contest; and a self-help quit smoking kit.
(14) Jeremy Corbyn 'would increase mandate if he faced leadership contest' Read more Inside a ground floor hall, there are already no empty seats.
(15) The contours of the next Labour leadership contest are hard to see at the moment.
(16) The show is so out of touch that 17-year-old contestant Nicholas McDonald complained to Dermot live on air during week five that none of the genres had happened within his lifetime.
(17) José Mourinho ended this breathless contest on his knees with a sliding, turf-surfing celebration that was fuelled by relief as much as joy.
(18) Summer Zervos: Apprentice contestant claims Trump kissed and groped her Read more “There’s an old principle,” said William Galston , a former adviser to Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
(19) Tonight the BBC's new singing contest The Voice goes head to head with Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent on ITV.
(20) Excretion of zinc and especially of silicon through the kidneys and intestine drastically grew on the day of the contest.
Wrestle
Definition:
(v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
(v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
(v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
(n.) A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
(2) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
(3) Can the protests, which tried, ultimately without success, to wrestle genuine universal suffrage from Beijing, be called a failure?
(4) However, the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander , is adamant Labour could not afford to spend the first two years of government wrestling with a referendum on Europe, pointing to the energy it had expended on the near-disastrous no campaign for the Scotland independence vote.
(5) Anthropometric characteristics, passive hip flexion, and spinal mobility were examined and back pain was registered in 116 top Swedish male athletes representing four different sports (wrestling, gymnastics, soccer, tennis).
(6) But the Lib Dems' conference, which starts on Saturday in Glasgow, may be marked by a series of internal disputes as the leadership and party activists wrestle over strategy, policies and the independence of its manifesto.
(7) Celebrity Wrestling is the biggest failure of the ITV 2005 schedule so far.
(8) Heselden's only reservation about the ceremony, said David Robinson, would have been the time it took 30 or more staff to wrestle with erecting the marquee.
(9) This failure to wrestle with what’s coming goes wider.
(10) Updated at 6.57pm BST 6.49pm BST A congressman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), once lost an arm-wrestling match against Russian president Vladimir Putin , and now he has told the world about it.
(11) Instead he realised that while his teammates were wrestling him on the ground in celebration, he hadn’t yet shaken hands with his opponent, David Goffin.
(12) – are all questions that many health and care economies around the country are still wrestling with.
(13) But Bony knows he has the trust of me and the team.” A second Ivorian joined him among the goals when Damien Delaney wrestled Eliaquim Mangala to the ground and Touré scored from the resulting penalty.
(14) Hookem said: “It was two people grappling, that had hold of each other, and were basically still stood up but wrestling.
(15) He had wrestled one of the gunmen – there were marks on his arms where he had attempted to fight them off – and been shot in the chest, dying instantly.
(16) A wrestler's weight is often determined by the need to fill a wrestling class and not on a good scientific basis.
(17) It is by no means a total success artistically but it has enough tension, feeling and originality of theme and speech to make the choice understandable, and the evening must have given to anyone who has wrestled with the mechanics of play-making an uneasy and yet not wasted jaunt, just as it must have awoken echoes in anyone one who has not forgotten the frustrations of youth.
(18) There are a number of common problems that affect the whole of our media spectrum, all of which have at some point to be wrestled to the ground if we're to ever move beyond what I see as this potentially self-destructive phase in our historical development.
(19) The room held 52' Carl Hutchinson My childhood hero was World Wrestling Entertainment's Mick Foley .
(20) So it is with Ukip: this party has made no rational sense since it captured the name from its anti-federalist founders and wrestled it into a one-man, anti-everything machine.