English > compete: 1 sense > verb 1, competition| Meaning | compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
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| Synonyms | vie, contend |
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| Entailed by | contend, fight, struggle | Be engaged in a fight |
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| keep up | Maintain a required pace or level |
| lead, top | Be ahead of others |
| lose | fail to win |
| meet, encounter, play, take on | contend against an opponent in a sport, game / game, or battle |
| overtake, catch, catch up with | catch up with and possibly overtake / overtake |
| score, hit, tally, rack up | gain points in a game / game / game |
| win | Be the winner in a contest or competition |
| Narrower | emulate | compete with successfully |
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| equal, touch, rival, match | Be equal to in quality or ability |
| play | participate in games / games or sport |
| race, run | compete in a race |
| rival | Be the rival of, be in competition with |
| run off | decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff |
| try for, go for | make an attempt at achieving something |
| Spanish | competer, competir, contender, medirse, rivalizar |
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| Catalan | competir, contendir, contendre |
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| Adjectives | competitive, competitory | involving competition or competitiveness |
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| Nouns | competition | the act of competing as for profit / profit or a prize |
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| competitor | the contestant you hope to defeat |
