Advocate and Contend

Advocate

Advocate verb - To promote the interests or cause of.

Contend and advocate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Contend" instead a verb "Advocate".

Nearby Words: advocacy, advocated, advocating

Contend

Contend verb - To state (something) as a reason in support of or against something under consideration.
Usage example: contended that the senator's considerable experience made him the best candidate

Advocate and contend are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Advocate" instead a verb "Contend".

Common collocations

characters advocate characters contend characters
views advocate views contend views
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