CONTESTING Synonyms

• sharply and harshly discordant

• engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity

• an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)

• an engagement fought between two military forces

• the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

• battle or contend against in or as if in a battle

• compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

• a disagreement or argument about something important

• coming into conflict with

• take exception to

• have a disagreement over something

• To oppose or compete with.

• To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.

• To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.

• compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

• maintain or assert

• have an argument about something

• to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation

• succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available

• compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

• be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight

• compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

• be resistant to

• prove to be false or incorrect

• be against; express opposition to

• fight against or resist strongly

• contrast with equal weight or force

• set into opposition or rivalry

• act against or in opposition to

• be resistant to

• challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of

• a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers

• an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

• the act of competing as for profit or a prize

• the contestant you hope to defeat

• to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation