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- Contest - v. t. - To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
- Contest - 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.
- Contest - v. i. - To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.
- Contest - n. - Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
- Contest - n. - Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
- Contest - 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.
- Contestable - a. - Capable of being contested; debatable.
- Contestant - n. - One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
- Contestation - n. - The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.
- Contestation - n. - Proof by witness; attestation; testimony.
- Contested - imp. & p. p. - of Contest
- Contesting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Contest
- Contestingly - adv. - In a contending manner.
- Handicap - n. - A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
- Decisive - a. - Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
- Arena - n. - Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life.
- Bet - n. - That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.
- Finally - adv. - At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.
- Brangle - n. - A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute.
- Play - v. t. - To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.
- Final - a. - Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue.
- Fight - v. i. - A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.
- Pool - n. - In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
- Brabble - v. i. - To clamor; to contest noisily.
- Worst - a. - To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit.
- Spar - n. - A contest at sparring or boxing.
- Rubber - n. - In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.
- Match - v. - A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.
- Agony - n. - Violent contest or striving.
- Field - n. - A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
- Wager - v. t. - Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
- Cockfight - n. - A match or contest of gamecocks.
- Race - n. - Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.
- Round - n. - The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules; a bout.
- Tournament - n. - Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.
- War - n. - A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
- Disputation - v. i. - The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.
- Spar - v. i. - To contest in words; to wrangle.
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- G73 ἀγών - 73 ἀγών - ἈΓΏΝ - - agṓn - ag-one' - from ἄγω; properly, a place of assembly (as if led), i.e. (by implication) a contest (held there); figuratively, an effort or anxiety:--conflict, contention, fight, race. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G118 ἀθλέω - 118 ἀθλέω - ἈΘΛΈΩ - - athléō - ath-leh'-o - from (a contest in the public lists); to contend in the competitive games:--strive. - Verb - greek
- H4066 מָדוֹן - 4066 מָדוֹן - מָדוֹן - - mâdôwn - maw-dohn' - from דִּין; a contest or quarrel; brawling, contention(-ous), discord, strife. Compare מִדְיָן, מְדָן. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4079 מִדְיָן - 4079 מִדְיָן - מִדְיָן - - midyân - mid-yawn' - a variation for מָדוֹן; {a contest or quarrel}; brawling, contention(-ous). - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4090 מְדָן - 4090 מְדָן - מְדָן - - mᵉdân - med-awn' - a form of מָדוֹן; {a contest or quarrel}; discord, strife. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H7379 רִיב - 7379 רִיב - רִיב - - rîyb - reeb - or רִב; from רִיב; a contest (personal or legal); [phrase] adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit. - Noun Masculine - heb