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contend with

a outrance, bandy with, battle, battle it out, bump heads, care for, challenge, complain, complain loudly, confront, cope with, cross swords with, deal with, dispute, dissent, do with, engage with, exchange shots, face down, face out, face up to, fight like devils, fight with, front, go to loggerheads, grapple with, handle, have it out, kick against, lock horns, make a stand, manage, measure swords with, meet head-on, object, offer resistance, oppose, protest, recalcitrate, reluct, remonstrate, revolt, settle it, show fight, stand, stand at bay, stand up against, stand up to, steward, strive against, strive with, struggle with, tangle with, tilt with, treat, try conclusions with, use, withstand, wrestle with

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contend with

Contention

VB contend, contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle, spar, square, exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs, fib, justle, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence, skirmish, pickeer, fight, wrangle, contend with, grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush, with, tilt with, encounter, fall foul of, pitch into, clapperclaw, run a tilt at, oppose, reluct, join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand, take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet, enter the lists, couch one's lance, give satisfaction, appeal to arms, lay about one, break the peace, compete with, cope with, vie with, race with, outvie, emulate, rival, run a race, contend for, stipulate for, stickle for, insist upon, make a point of.