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Adjective contending has 1 sense
- contending - striving or struggling in rivalry or battle; "contending armies"; "two contending parties"
Antonym: noncompetitive (indirect, via competitive)
Verb contend has 5 senses
- contend, postulate - maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future"
--1 is one way to claim
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Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- argue, contend, debate, fence - have an argument about something
--2 is one way to converse, discourse
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
- contest, contend, repugn - to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race"
--3 is one way to oppose
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- compete, vie, contend - compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
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Somebody ----s PP
- cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage - 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"
--5 is one way to act, move
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