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Team :: Team (n.) A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc..

Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

Cope :: Cope (v. i.) To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with..

Conflict :: Conflict (v. i.) To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.

Battle :: Battle (n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories..

Hard Grass :: Hard grass () A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived..

Antagonistical :: Antagonistical (a.) Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces..

Debate :: Debate (v. i.) To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon..

Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To contend; to struggle.

Chide :: Chide (v. i.) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.

Vitilitigate :: Vitilitigate (v. i.) To contend in law litigiously or cavilously.

Debate :: Debate (v. t.) To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.

Buffet :: Buffet (v. t.) To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows..

Strifeful :: Strife (n.) That which is contended against; occasion of contest.

Chappion :: Chappion (n.) One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's honor or rights; or one who acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero.

Weapon :: Weapon (n.) Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon..

Combativeness :: Combativeness (n.) The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

Sequester :: Sequester (n.) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.

Quarrel :: Quarrel (v. i.) To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight..

Anglo-catholic :: Anglo-Catholic (n.) A member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman..

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