Contend
Contend verb - To engage in a contest.
Common collocations
| character | contend character | murder character |
| time | contend time | murder time |
| characters | contend characters | murder characters |
Both words in one sentence
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So angry and tormented over his brother's murder and the police's racially motivated bungling of the case that he takes it out on someone completely undeserving of it, devastating Matt's loved ones, as well as his own mother, who now has to contend with losing BOTH of her sons.
Source: Series / Law & Order: UK - Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Day to day life in Mortasheen looks like this, since they daily contend with mad science that can rearrange their memories, kill them instantly, or clone them... or they use this mad science to make toast.
Source: Tabletop Game / Mortasheen
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Murder and Contend. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/contend/murder
Contend & Murder. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/contend/murder>.
Murder or Contend. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/contend/murder.
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