SPARRING Antonyms

• the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

• engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

• engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity

• an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)

• a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

• an energetic attempt to achieve something

• an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)

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

• 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

• be of different opinions

• be different from one another

• a bitter quarrel between two parties

• carry out a feud

• A heated argument.