Contend vs Accuse - What's the difference?
contend | accuse | Related terms |
to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
* Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
* Shakespeare
to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
* Dryden
to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
* John Locke
* Dr H. More
To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
* (rfdate) (Epistle to the Romans) 2:15,
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To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
* (rfdate) (Acts of the Apostles) 24:13,
To make an accusation against someone.
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Contend is a related term of accuse.
As verbs the difference between contend and accuse
is that contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight while accuse is .contend
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
- For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
- You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
- The question which our author would contend for.
- Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.
Synonyms
* struggle, fight, combat, vie, strive, oppose, emulate, contest, litigate, dispute, debateExternal links
* *accuse
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(accus)- Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
- We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
- Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
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