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challenge: a demand by a sentry for a password or identification; questioning a statement and demanding an explanation; "his challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy"; a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror; a call to engage in a contest or fight; a demanding or stimulating situation; "they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power"; raise a formal objection in a court of law; ask for identification; "The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard"; issue a challenge to; "Fischer challenged Spassky to a match"; take exception to; "She challenged his claims"

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emulate collapse: compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with; "This artist's drawings cannot emulate his water colors"; imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software; strive to equal or match, especially by imitating; "He is emulating the skating skills of his older sister"

vie collapse

teach in collapse

glove collapse: handwear: covers the hand and wrist

face down collapse

probing collapse

gainsay collapse

lay before collapse

bring before collapse

put it to collapse

stare down collapse: overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring; "He simply stared down his opponent"

picketing collapse

stonewall collapse: engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate; "The President stonewalled when he realized the plot was being uncovered by a journalist"; obstruct or hinder any discussion; "Nixon stonewalled the Watergate investigation"; "When she doesn't like to face a problem, she simply stonewalls"

solicit collapse: make a solicitation or petition for something desired; "She is too shy to solicit"; incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination; "He was accused of soliciting his colleagues to destroy the documents"; make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"

take with a grain of salt collapse

repulsion collapse: the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand; the force by which bodies repel one another

inquiring collapse: given to inquiry; "an inquiring mind"

gauntlet collapse: a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim; a glove with long sleeve; a glove of armored leather; protects the hand; to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet"; "took up the gauntlet"

compete collapse: compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

gantlet collapse: the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place; the inner rails cross and run parallel and then diverge so a train remains on its own tracks at all times

stand up to collapse

interrogation collapse: formal systematic questioning; a transmission that will trigger an answering transmission from a transponder

mistrust collapse

oppugn collapse

strive against collapse

cope collapse: 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"

expostulate collapse: reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion

questioning collapse: a request for information; perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression"

contend with collapse

distrust collapse: the trait of not trusting others; regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in

contraposition collapse

discountenance collapse: show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced"; look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"

clamor for collapse

cry for collapse

set before collapse

demurrer collapse: (law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings

stand in the way collapse

withstand collapse

ask for collapse

elude collapse: escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"; be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"

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