Establish
Establish verb - To gain full recognition or acceptance of.
Rival and establish are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rival" instead a verb "Establish".
Nearby Words: establishment, establishing
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Straw Misogynist: Your rival Ant and his friends quickly establish themselves to be condenscendingly sexist twerps.
- His rival, Lawrence Murphy, plans to establish a monopoly, and is buying up all the stores and property he can get his hands on.
Source: Film / Chisum -
Fanservice: One issue of Doctor Mirage guest-starred a popular actor from the soap opera All My Children, even going so far as to establish him as a former rival for Mirage's wife, Carmen.
Source: Creator / Valiant Comics
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