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contendingverbpresent participle of contend to engage in a contesttwo traditional rivals contending for the championship battling, competing, facing off, fighting, racing, rivaling(or rivalling), vying challenging, engaging, playingjockeying, jostling, maneuveringgoing out, trying outtraining, working to state (something) as a reason in support of or against something under considerationcontended that the senator's considerable experience made him the best candidate arguing, asserting, maintaining, pleading, reasoning adducing, citing, mentioningclaiming, insistingaffirming, averring, avouching, avowingadvancing, giving, offering, proposing, submittingadvising, counseling(or counselling), recommending, suggesting, urgingconvincing, persuadingadvocating, championing, defending, enforcing, espousing, supportingexplaining, justifying, rationalizingconsidering, debating, discussingconfuting, countering, disproving, rebutting, refuting to state as a fact usually forcefullycontended that his opponent was wrong about practically everything affirming, alleging, asserting, averring, avouching, avowing, claiming, declaring, insisting, maintaining, professing, protesting, purporting, warranting announcing, broadcasting, proclaimingarguing, rationalizing, reasoningconfirming, justifying, vindicatingdefending, persevering, supporting, upholdingreaffirming, reasserting putting forth denying, gainsaying abandoningdisavowing, disclaiming, disowning, negating, negativing, rejecting, repudiatingchallenging, disputing, questioningconfuting, disproving, rebutting, refutingcontradicting, countering |