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  1. contend: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  2. contend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. contend: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. contend: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Contend: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. contend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. contend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. contend: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Contend, contend: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. contend: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. contend: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. contend: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Contend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. contend: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  15. Contend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. contend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  17. contend: Rhymezone [home, info]
  18. Contend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  19. contend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  20. contend: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  21. contend: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  22. contend: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  23. contend: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  24. contend: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contend: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Quick definitions (contend)

verb:  maintain or assert ("He contended that Communism had no future")
verb:  have an argument about something
verb:  to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation
verb:  compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
verb:  come to terms or deal successfully with

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