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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.
n.
A dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish.
n.
A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.
v. t.
To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
n.
In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.
v. t.
To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
n.
One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
a.
Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.
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v. i.
To strive for superiority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition.
n.
The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of defeat.
v. t.
To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet.
n.
a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
v. t.
To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
n.
The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.
v. t.
To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
a.
Capable of being contested; debatable.
v. t.
Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
n.
The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; -- often followed by art, rarely by of.
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