contends
Fights for position
Contends has two main senses.
To contend is to compete or struggle against opposition: Several candidates contend for the nomination.
It also means to assert or maintain, especially in argument: The defense contends that the evidence was planted.
Someone who contends with difficulties deals with them: She contends with chronic pain daily.
States as true
- claimsStatements of truth
- maintainsKeeps in condition
- arguesPresents opposing views
- insistsAsserts with firmness
declares · affirms · alleges · holds · states · posits · avers · professes
asserts
States as true
insists · declares · affirms · alleges · holds · states · posits · avers · professes · submits
vies
Competes with others
challenges · strives · fights · struggles · opposes · matches up · races · jousts · clashes · squares off
grapples
Engages in close combat
- wrestlesFights using holds
- copesHandles difficulty successfully
- deals withManages or addresses
confronts · tackles · faces · battles · fights · labors · strains · toils · perseveres · endures
- takes onadopts, assumes, accepts, undertakes, shoulders
- attributionattributed to, cited, according to, per, via
contendssurrenders
Ceases resistance formally
yields · capitulates · gives up · cedes · quits
- bone of contentionDisputed matter between parties
- point of contentionDisputed issue between parties
- in contentionAble to win
- global contenderCompetitor at worldwide level
contender, contend, contention, contentious, contending, contended, uncontentious