Contend vs Withstand - What's the difference?
contend | withstand |
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 resist or endure (something) successfully.
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To oppose (something) forcefully.
As verbs the difference between contend and withstand
is that contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight while withstand is to resist or endure (something) successfully.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.