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contending
striving or struggling in rivalry or battle; "contending armies"; "two contending parties"
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
struggling
collapse
engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists"
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battling
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contending
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contestant
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contesting
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disputant
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drudging
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fighting
,
grinding
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grubbing
,
hardworking
,
laboring
,
pegging
,
plodding
,
plugging
,
quarrelsome
,
slaving
,
slogging
,
straining
,
striving
,
sweating
,
toiling
,
warlike
,
warring
,
working
factious
collapse
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aggressive
,
alienated
,
argumentative
,
at loggerheads
,
at odds
,
bellicose
,
belligerent
,
bickering
,
breakaway
,
combative
,
conflicting
,
contending
,
contentious
,
contumacious
,
disaffected
,
discordant
,
disputatious
,
divisive
,
eristic
,
estranged
,
extreme
,
extremistic
,
factional
,
fighting
,
insurgent
,
insurrectionary
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
litigious
,
mutineering
,
mutinous
,
partisan
,
polarizing
,
polemic
,
pugnacious
,
quarrelsome
,
rebel
,
rebellious
,
refractory
,
revolutional
,
revolutionary
,
riotous
,
seditionary
,
seditious
,
shrewish
,
subversive
,
traitorous
,
treasonable
,
turbulent
,
warring
,
wrangling
warlike
collapse
suggesting war or military life
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aggressive
,
antagonistic
,
battling
,
bellicose
,
belligerent
,
bloodthirsty
,
bloody
,
bloody-minded
,
chauvinist
,
chauvinistic
,
combative
,
contending
,
contentious
,
contestant
,
contesting
,
disputant
,
enemy
,
ferocious
,
fierce
,
fighting
,
full of fight
,
hawkish
,
hostile
,
inimical
,
jingo
,
jingoish
,
jingoist
,
jingoistic
,
martial
,
militant
,
militaristic
,
military
,
offensive
,
pugnacious
,
quarrelsome
,
saber-rattling
,
sanguinary
,
sanguineous
,
savage
,
scrappy
,
soldierlike
,
soldierly
,
striving
,
struggling
,
trigger-happy
,
truculent
,
unfriendly
,
unpacific
,
unpeaceable
,
unpeaceful
,
warmongering
,
warring
striving
collapse
an effortful attempt to attain a goal
related words >
aim
,
ambition
,
animus
,
aspiration
,
battling
,
combat
,
competition
,
conflict
,
contending
,
contestant
,
contesting
,
counsel
,
desideration
,
desideratum
,
design
,
desire
,
determination
,
disputant
,
drudging
,
effect
,
effort
,
emulation
,
endeavor
,
essay
,
exertion
,
fight
,
fighting
,
fixed purpose
,
function
,
grinding
,
grubbing
,
hardworking
,
hassle
,
idea
,
intendment
,
intent
,
intention
,
labor
,
laboring
,
meaning
,
mind
,
motive
,
nisus
,
pegging
,
plan
,
plodding
,
plugging
,
point
,
project
,
proposal
,
prospectus
,
purpose
,
quarrelsome
,
resolution
,
resolve
,
rivalry
,
sake
,
slaving
,
slogging
,
strain
,
straining
,
strife
,
struggle
,
struggling
,
study
,
sweating
,
toil
,
toiling
,
travail
,
trial
,
try
,
tug-of-war
,
undertaking
,
view
,
warfare
,
warlike
,
warring
,
will
,
work
,
working
warring
collapse
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aggressive
,
ajar
,
all-out war
,
antagonistic
,
appeal to arms
,
armed combat
,
armed conflict
,
attack
,
battle
,
battling
,
bellicose
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
belligerent
,
bloodshed
,
bloodthirsty
,
bloody
,
bloody-minded
,
chauvinist
,
chauvinistic
,
clashing
,
combat
,
combative
,
conflicting
,
confused
,
contending
,
contentious
,
contestant
,
contesting
,
disputant
,
enemy
,
ferocious
,
fierce
,
fighting
,
full of fight
,
grating
,
harsh
,
hawkish
,
hostile
,
hostilities
,
hot war
,
inimical
,
jangling
,
jangly
,
jarring
,
jingo
,
jingoish
,
jingoist
,
jingoistic
,
jostling
,
la guerre
,
martial
,
might of arms
,
militant
,
militaristic
,
military
,
military operations
,
offensive
,
open hostilities
,
open war
,
pugnacious
,
quarrelsome
,
resort to arms
,
saber-rattling
,
sanguinary
,
sanguineous
,
savage
,
scrappy
,
shooting war
,
soldierlike
,
soldierly
,
state of war
,
striving
,
struggling
,
the sword
,
total war
,
trigger-happy
,
truculent
,
unfriendly
,
unpacific
,
unpeaceable
,
unpeaceful
,
war
,
warfare
,
warlike
,
warmaking
,
warmongering
,
wartime
quarrelsome
collapse
given to quarreling; "arguing children"; "quarrelsome when drinking"
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acrid
,
adverse
,
aggressive
,
antagonistic
,
antipathetic
,
argumental
,
argumentative
,
battling
,
bellicose
,
belligerent
,
bickering
,
bitter
,
bloodthirsty
,
bloody
,
bloody-minded
,
brawling
,
cankered
,
cat-and-dog
,
cat-and-doggish
,
caustic
,
chauvinist
,
chauvinistic
,
choleric
,
clashing
,
colliding
,
combative
,
conflicting
,
contending
,
contentious
,
contestant
,
contesting
,
contrary
,
controversial
,
counter
,
crabbed
,
cranky
,
cross
,
despiteful
,
dialectic
,
disagreeable
,
disputant
,
disputatious
,
dissentient
,
dissentious
,
dissident
,
divisive
,
dyspeptic
,
enemy
,
eristic
,
factional
,
factious
,
ferocious
,
fierce
,
fighting
,
fractious
,
full of fight
,
full of hate
,
grouchy
,
hateful
,
hawkish
,
hostile
,
ill-humored
,
inimical
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
jingo
,
jingoish
,
jingoist
,
jingoistic
,
litigious
,
logomachic
,
malevolent
,
malicious
,
malignant
,
martial
,
militant
,
militaristic
,
military
,
offensive
,
partisan
,
peevish
,
petulant
,
pilpulistic
,
polarizing
,
polemic
,
pro and con
,
pugnacious
,
querulous
,
rancorous
,
repugnant
,
saber-rattling
,
sanguinary
,
sanguineous
,
savage
,
scrappy
,
set against
,
shrewish
,
soldierlike
,
soldierly
,
sore
,
spiteful
,
squabbling
,
striving
,
struggling
,
testy
,
trigger-happy
,
truculent
,
unfriendly
,
unpacific
,
unpeaceable
,
unpeaceful
,
venomous
,
virulent
,
vitriolic
,
warlike
,
warmongering
,
warring
,
wrangling
fighting
collapse
related words >
Chinese boxing
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Kilkenny cats
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aggressive
,
all-out war
,
altercation
,
antagonistic
,
appeal to arms
,
argument
,
armed combat
,
armed conflict
,
attack
,
battle
,
battling
,
bellicose
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
belligerent
,
bickering
,
bloodshed
,
bloodthirsty
,
bloody
,
bloody-minded
,
bout
,
boxing
,
boxing match
,
cat-and-dog life
,
chauvinist
,
chauvinistic
,
close fighting
,
combat
,
combative
,
conflict
,
contending
,
contention
,
contentious
,
contentiousness
,
contest
,
contestant
,
contestation
,
contesting
,
controversy
,
cut and thrust
,
debate
,
disputant
,
disputation
,
dispute
,
enemy
,
enmity
,
ferocious
,
fierce
,
fisticuffs
,
full of fight
,
hawkish
,
hostile
,
hostilities
,
hostility
,
hot war
,
infighting
,
inimical
,
jingo
,
jingoish
,
jingoist
,
jingoistic
,
la guerre
,
litigation
,
logomachy
,
martial
,
might of arms
,
militant
,
militaristic
,
military
,
military operations
,
offensive
,
open hostilities
,
open war
,
paper war
,
polemic
,
prizefight
,
prizefighting
,
pugilism
,
pugnacious
,
quarrel
,
quarreling
,
quarrelsome
,
quarrelsomeness
,
resort to arms
,
saber-rattling
,
sanguinary
,
sanguineous
,
savage
,
savate
,
scrapping
,
scrappy
,
shadowboxing
,
shooting war
,
soldierlike
,
soldierly
,
spar
,
squabbling
,
state of war
,
strife
,
striving
,
struggle
,
struggling
,
the clinches
,
the fights
,
the ring
,
the sword
,
total war
,
trigger-happy
,
truculent
,
unfriendly
,
unpacific
,
unpeaceable
,
unpeaceful
,
war
,
war of words
,
warfare
,
warlike
,
warmaking
,
warmongering
,
warring
,
wartime
,
words
,
wrangling
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