Contest

·noun Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.

II. Contest ·vt To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.

III. Contest ·noun Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, ·etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.

IV. Contest ·vt To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to Controvert.

V. Contest ·vi To engage in contention, or emulation; to Contend; to Strive; to Vie; to Emulate;

— followed usually by with.

VI. Contest ·vt To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to Controvert; to Oppose; to Dispute.