To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
To call into question; to oppose.
To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
To contend.
Controversy; debate.
Struggle for superiority; combat.
A competition.
To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
Strife, contention, great effort.