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Pancratiast :: Pancratiast (n.) One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.

Litigation :: Litigation (n.) The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.

Debate :: Debate (v. t.) A fight or fighting; contest; strife.

Backer :: Backer (n.) One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest..

Wage :: Wage (v. t.) To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war..

War :: 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..

Incontested :: Incontested (a.) Not contested.

Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest..

Spar :: Spar (v. i.) To contest in words; to wrangle.

Pool :: 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..

Tie :: Tie (v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with..

Luctation :: Luctation (n.) Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor.

Quarrelsome :: Quarrelsome (a.) Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

Antagony :: Antagony (n.) Contest; opposition; antagonism.

Over :: Over (prep.) Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding; as, he triumphed over difficulties; the bill was passed over the veto..

Field :: Field (n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting..

Brangle :: Brangle (n.) A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute.

Engagement :: Engagement (n.) The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest..

Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them..

Arena :: Arena (n.) Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life..

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