Definition of contest

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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..

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Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest..
Scuffle :: Scuffle (n.) Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight..
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..
Victor :: Victor (n.) The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; -- often followed by art, rarely by of..
Competition :: Competition (n.) The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with..
Handicap :: 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..
Neutral :: Neutral (n.) A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral.
Pancratiast :: Pancratiast (n.) One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.
Debate :: Debate (v. t.) A fight or fighting; contest; strife.
Plate :: Plate (n.) A prize giving to the winner in a contest.
Tug :: Tug (n.) A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort..
Hardhead :: Hardhead (n.) Clash or collision of heads in contest.
Uncontestable :: Uncontestable (a.) Incontestable.
Quarrelsome :: Quarrelsome (a.) Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
Truce :: Truce (n.) Hence, intermission of action, pain, or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet..
Pull :: Pull (n.) Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull..
Brangle :: Brangle (n.) A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute.
Contest :: Contest (n.) Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
Winning :: Winning (n.) The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition..
Issue :: Issue (n.) The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial..
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