Squabble vs Contend - What's the difference?
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To participate in a minor fight or argument.
* I. Watts
(printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
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
As verbs the difference between squabble and contend
is that squabble is to participate in a minor fight or argument while contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.As a noun squabble
is a minor fight or argument as between children, for example.squabble
English
Derived terms
* squabblyVerb
(squabbl)- ''The brothers were always squabbling with each other.
- The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative.
- to squabble type
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* squabblercontend
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.