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Exact Match:

contest

a struggle between rivals

an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race"

Synonyms:

• Kilkenny cats,
• Olympic games,
• Olympics,
• abjure,
• action,
• altercation,
• antagonize,
• argue,
• argufy,
• argument,
• assert the contrary,
• awake a doubt,
• bandy words,
• battle,
• be contrary to,
• be diffident,
• be doubtful,
• be dubious,
• be skeptical,
• be uncertain,
• beat against,
• beat up against,
• belie,
• bicker,
• bicker over,
• bickering,
• bout,
• box,
• brawl,
• breast the wave,
• broil,
• brush,
• buck,
• buffet,
• buffet the waves,
• call in question,
• call into question,
• cat-and-dog life,
• cavil,
• challenge,
• championship,
• choplogic,
• clash,
• close,
• close with,
• collide,
• combat,
• come to blows,
• compete with,
• competition,
• concours,
• conflict,
• confute,
• contend,
• contend about,
• contend against,
• contention,
• contentiousness,
• contestation,
• contradict,
• contravene,
• controversy,
• controvert,
• counter,
• cross,
• cross swords,
• cut and thrust,
• debate,
• decathlon,
• deny,
• derby,
• disaffirm,
• disallow,
• disavow,
• discept,
• disclaim,
• disown,
• disprove,
• disputation,
• dispute,
• distrust,
• double-header,
• doubles,
• doubt,
• duel,
• emulation,
• encounter,
• engagement,
• enmity,
• event,
• exchange blows,
• fence,
• feud,
• fight,
• fight a duel,
• fight against,
• fight over,
• fighting,
• forswear,
• foursome,
• gainsay,
• game,
• games,
• games of chance,
• give and take,
• give satisfaction,
• go,
• grapple,
• grapple with,
• greet with skepticism,
• gymkhana,
• half believe,
• harbor suspicions,
• hassle,
• have it out,
• have reservations,
• hostility,
• impugn,
• join battle with,
• join issue,
• join issue upon,
• jostle,
• joust,
• labor against,
• litigation,
• lock horns,
• logomachize,
• logomachy,
• match,
• matching,
• meet,
• meeting,
• militate against,
• misgive,
• mistrust,
• mix it up,
• moot,
• negate,
• not accept,
• not admit,
• nullify,
• object to,
• offer resistance,
• oppose,
• oppugn,
• paper war,
• pentathlon,
• pettifog,
• play,
• play-off,
• plead,
• polemic,
• polemicize,
• polemize,
• proving,
• quarrel,
• quarrel over,
• quarreling,
• quarrelsomeness,
• query,
• question,
• quibble,
• race,
• raise a question,
• rally,
• rassle,
• rebut,
• recant,
• refuse to admit,
• refute,
• reject,
• reluct,
• reluctate,
• rencontre,
• renounce,
• repudiate,
• retract,
• revoke,
• riot,
• rival,
• rivalry,
• run a tilt,
• runoff,
• scramble,
• scrapping,
• scruple,
• scuffle,
• singles,
• skirmish,
• smell a rat,
• spar,
• sport,
• squabble over,
• squabbling,
• stem the tide,
• strife,
• strive,
• strive against,
• striving,
• struggle,
• struggle against,
• suspect,
• take back,
• take issue with,
• take on,
• take sides,
• test,
• testing,
• thrash out,
• threesome,
• throw doubt upon,
• thrust and parry,
• tilt,
• tournament,
• tourney,
• traverse,
• treat with reserve,
• trial,
• try conclusions,
• trying,
• tug-of-war,
• tussle,
• twosome,
• vie with,
• wage war,
• war,
• war of words,
• warfare,
• words,
• wrangle,
• wrangle over,
• wrangling,
• wrestle