Contend+for
121defend — Synonyms and related words: account, advocate, air, allege in support, answer, argue, argue for, arm, armor, assert, avert, back, battle, bless, bulwark, champion, claim, cloak, compass about, conserve, contend, contend for, copyright, counter,… …
122contention — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of contending Nouns 1. (act of contending) contention, strife, contest, contestation, altercation, infighting; struggle; belligerency, pugnacity, combativeness (see irascibility); competition,… …
123contest — I. v. a. 1. Dispute, controvert, argue, debate, litigate, contend against, call in question. 2. Strive to hold, struggle to defend. 3. Contend for, strive to carry, compete for, make the object of competition or rivalry or emulation. II. v. n.… …
124debate — debater, n. debatingly, adv. /di bayt /, n., v., debated, debating. n. 1. a discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints: a debate in the Senate on farm price supports. 2. a formal contest in which the… …
125stickle — Synonyms and related words: abrupt, arduous, back down, balance, balk, blench, boggle, contend, contend for, debate, deliberate, demur, die hard, falter, fear, fight for, fight shy of, flinch, gag, hang back, hang off, have qualms, hem and haw,… …
126plead — / plēd/ vb plead·ed or pled also plead / pled/, plead·ing [Anglo French plaider to argue in a court of law, from Old French plaid legal action, trial more at plea] vi …
127Jude, Saint — Also called Thaddaeus or Labbaeus, the brother of James, and whose name sometimes appears as Judas, and in one instance it is added in parenthesis, not Iscariot. St. Jude was an Apostle of our Lord and wrote the Epistle which bears his name.… …
128contest — contestable, adj. contestableness, n. contestably, adv. contester, n. contestingly, adv. n. /kon test/; v. /keuhn test /, n. 1. a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize. 2. struggle for victory or superiority …
