Crossword-Solution: CONTEND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contend | v. i. | To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight. |
| Contend | v. i. | To struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend. |
| Contend | v. i. | To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue. |
| Contend | v. t. | To struggle for; to contest. |
We have 52 clues for the answer “CONTEND”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| maintain or assert | 1 answer |
| Offer in debate | 1 answer |
| Make it to the playoffs | 1 answer |
| Dispute strongly | 1 answer |
| Be a competitive prisoner? | 1 answer |
| Assert (that) | 1 answer |
| Allege or vie | 1 answer |
| Prisoner and guard meet head on | 1 answer |
| argue or assert | 1 answer |
| Battle it out | 2 answers |
| MAINTAIN that | 2 answers |
| STRIVE against | 4 answers |
| Struggle (with) | 5 answers |
| Try to Equal | 8 answers |
| DISPUTE OR ARGUE STUBBORNLY | 10 answers |
| CARRY ON A FIGHT | 11 answers |
| Vie | 16 answers |
| Cope | 18 answers |
| ALTERCATE | 18 answers |
| insist | 26 answers |
| Withstand | 28 answers |
| Profess | 29 answers |
| MAKE effort | 30 answers |
| Compete | 31 answers |
| Allege | 32 answers |
| militate | 33 answers |
| Grapple | 34 answers |
| Wrestle (with) | 35 answers |
| Bicker | 36 answers |
| ___ disagree. | 38 answers |
| Justify | 39 answers |
| Campaign | 43 answers |
| collide | 45 answers |
| Assert | 45 answers |
| Resist | 46 answers |
| Defend | 50 answers |
| differ | 57 answers |
| Argue | 58 answers |
| Strive | 58 answers |
| Oppose | 64 answers |
| Encounter | 66 answers |
| Brawl | 66 answers |
| face | 69 answers |
| Attempt | 72 answers |
| COMBAT ___ | 72 answers |
| Maintain | 73 answers |
| Struggle | 74 answers |
| Contention. | 74 answers |
| Conflict | 74 answers |
| Contest | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTEND (5)
Part on the Plain, or in the Air sublime Upon the wing, or in swift race contend, As at th’ Olympian Games or _Pythian_ fields; Part curb thir fierie Steeds, or shun the Goal With rapid wheels, or fronted Brigads form.
Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and Cotiaeum, the chief city of a province of Phrygia, contend for the distinction of being the birthplace of Aesop.
The thought of leaving my friends was decidedly the most painful thought with which I had to contend.
Bethink thee, sister, we are left alone; Shall we not perish wretchedest of all, If in defiance of the law we cross A monarch’s will?—weak women, think of that, Not framed by nature to contend with men.
The League for Programming Freedom The League for Programming Freedom is a grass-roots organization of professors, students, businessmen, programmers and users dedicated to "bringing back" the freedom to write programs, which they contend has been lost over the past number years.
Quotes with CONTEND (3)
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother: from her sprang Saturn, Hyperion, Oceanus; she bore Prometheus" --"Pagan that you are! what does that signify?""I say, there were giants on the earth in those days: giants that strove to scale heaven. The first woman's breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring…
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1976–2023).