Contend with
Contend with verb - To strive to reduce or eliminate.
Usage example: medical missionaries who daily contend with disease and poverty
Fight with and contend with are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fight with" instead a verb "Contend with".
Fight with
Contend with and fight with are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contend with" instead a verb "Fight with".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- attack and contend with
- attack and fight with
- encounter and contend with
- encounter and fight with
- oppose and contend with
- oppose and fight with
- contend and contend with
- contend and fight with
- oppugn and contend with
- oppugn and fight with
- take on and contend with
- take on and fight with
- engage and contend with
- engage and fight with
Both terms in one sentence
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In The Bridge, a team fight with Gigan, Megalon, and Irys having to contend with Grand King Ghidorah results in this when Megalon bombards Ghidorah with a barrage of napalm grenades.
Source: Infernal Retaliation
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