Crossword-Solution: CONTEST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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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. |
| Contest | v. t. | To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground. |
| Contest | v. t. | To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert. |
| Contest | v. i. | To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with. |
| Contest | n. | Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation. |
| Contest | n. | Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CONTEST | anagram | CONSETT, NETCOST |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CONTEST (5)
Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Sometimes the thing yielded to him without a contest, but there were occasions when it would have been better for the house if he had swallowed his pride and used a made-up tie.
Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning And of thir vain contest appeer’d no end.
They assembled on a certain day to carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest.
Strange, too, for one who has kept his calmness throughout the contest, to observe the bloodthirstiness that is developed in the hour of triumph, and to be conscious that he is himself among its objects! There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.
Quotes with CONTEST (3)
Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon Master and knowing there were twenty more levels to go. Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you…
You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.''No I mean it. You don't look good.''This is from a guy ho has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look, I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-' 'I am not trying to insult you.' Simon snapped.
Never get into a pissin' contest with a skunk." Mary Jo R.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).