Synonyms of contend

1 Syllable

push, cope, tug, vouch, clash, fought, vie, vied, meet, face, stand

2 Syllables

hashing, strive, strived, spitball, warred, battling, spatting, faced, avers, grapple, struggle, skirmish, rival, jousted, battled, resist, defend, vouching, discept, sparring, scrambling, oppugn, withstand, discuss, vouched, wrestle, insist, sparred, aver, confront, assert, wrangling, contest, propound, reassert, scrambled, avouch, grappled, spatted, strove, harding, jostle, striven, scrabbled, grappling, arguing, vying, argue, wrestling, wrestled, pitting, argued, scrabbling, battle, pitted

3 Syllables

rivaled, debating, refuting, warranting, championed, panoplied, combating, defending, insisted, rivalled, reasserting, compete, declaring, discussing, reasserted, protesting, refuted, justifies, avouched, championing, debated, discussed, justified, competing, propounded, refute, controvert, discusses, averred, quarrelled, oppose, justify, asserted, combated, propounding, encounter, justifying, averring, declare, asserting, resisted, proposing, quarreled, dispute, conflicted, disputed, quarrelling, insisting, competed, protested

4 Syllables

emulating, vindicated, disculpate, vindicate, altercate, litigate, asservate, vindicating, allegate, emulated, emulate

6 Syllables

controversialize