Contend vs Scurry - What's the difference?
contend | scurry |
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 run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
* 1964 ,
As verbs the difference between contend and scurry
is that contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight while scurry is to run away with quick light steps, to scamper.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
* *scurry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.