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Contest is a related term of wrangle.


In lang=en terms the difference between contest and wrangle

is that contest is to strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend while wrangle is to involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.

As nouns the difference between contest and wrangle

is that contest is (uncountable) controversy; debate while wrangle is an act of wrangling.

As verbs the difference between contest and wrangle

is that contest is to contend while wrangle is to bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily.

contest

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
  • no contest
  • (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
  • (countable) A competition.
  • The child entered the spelling contest .

    Synonyms

    * (controversy) controversy, debate, discussion * (combat) battle, combat, fight * (competition) competition, pageant

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the noun "contest") * contest shape * fashion contest * no contest * pissing contest * popularity contest * wet t-shirt contest * will contest

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To contend.
  • I will contest for the open seat on the board.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest ?
  • * Bishop Burnet
  • The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.
  • To call into question; to oppose.
  • The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.
  • * J. D. Morell
  • Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.
  • To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
  • The troops contested every inch of ground.
  • (legal) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
  • Synonyms

    * (contend) compete, contend, go in for * (oppose) call into question, oppose

    Antonyms

    * (oppose) support

    wrangle

    English

    Verb

    (wrangl)
  • To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily.
  • * Shakespeare
  • For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle .
  • * Addison
  • He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points.
  • to herd horses or other livestock
  • To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
  • * Bishop Robert Sanderson
  • When we have wrangled ourselves as long as our wits and strengths will serve us, the honest, downright sober English Protestant will be found in the end the man that walketh in the safest way, and by the surest line.
  • I don't know how, but she managed to wrangle us four front row seats at tonight's game.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * wrangler

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of wrangling.
  • An angry dispute.
  • See also

    * wangle