Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to contest
Participle: contested
Gerund: contesting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | contest |
| you | contest |
| he;she;it | contests |
| we | contest |
| you | contest |
| they | contest |
Perfect
| I | have contested |
| you | have contested |
| he;she;it | has contested |
| we | have contested |
| you | have contested |
| they | have contested |
Past
| I | contested |
| you | contested |
| he;she;it | contested |
| we | contested |
| you | contested |
| they | contested |
Pluperfect
| I | had contested |
| you | had contested |
| he;she;it | had contested |
| we | had contested |
| you | had contested |
| they | had contested |
Future
| I | will contest |
| you | will contest |
| he;she;it | will contest |
| we | will contest |
| you | will contest |
| they | will contest |
Future Perfect
| I | will have contested |
| you | will have contested |
| he;she;it | will have contested |
| we | will have contested |
| you | will have contested |
| they | will have contested |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | contest |
| you | contest |
| he;she;it | contest |
| we | contest |
| you | contest |
| they | contest |
Perfect
| I | have contested |
| you | have contested |
| he;she;it | have contested |
| we | have contested |
| you | have contested |
| they | have contested |
Imperfect
| I | contested |
| you | contested |
| he;she;it | contested |
| we | contested |
| you | contested |
| they | contested |
Pluperfect
| I | had contested |
| you | had contested |
| he;she;it | had contested |
| we | had contested |
| you | had contested |
| they | had contested |
Conditional
Present
| I | would contest |
| you | would contest |
| he;she;it | would contest |
| we | would contest |
| you | would contest |
| they | would contest |
Perfect
| I | would have contested |
| you | would have contested |
| he;she;it | would have contested |
| we | would have contested |
| you | would have contested |
| they | would have contested |
Imperative
| you | contest |
| we | Let's contest |
| you | contest |
Verbs conjugated like 'contest'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'contest'
congest,
content,
context,
cotest,
coattest,
coingest,
conceit,
concert,
confect,
confess,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- challenge
- refute, dispute, debate, litigate, controvert, question, oppose
- fight
- battle, contend, struggle, wrangle, compete, combat, brawl, feud
- compete
- contend, vie, strive, rival
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1603, from Fr.
contester "dispute, oppose," from M.Fr., from L.
contestari (litem) "to call to witness, bring action," from
com- "together" +
testari "to bear witness," from
testis "a witness," (see testify). Calling witnesses as the first step in a legal combat. The noun is 1643, from the verb.
Contestant "one who contests" is from 1861, popularized in U.S. Civil War.
2. PIE word
3. *tréyes
4. From French contester, from Old French, from Latin contestor (“to call to witness”). See: French '
contester', Latin '
contestor'.
Sample Sentences
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I will contest for the open seat on the board.
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Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest? [1725, Homer, “Book IV”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:]
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1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
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As for the difficulty or obscurity of an argument, that does but add to the pleasure.of contesting with it when there are hopes of victory
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The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.
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Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this. [1848, John Daniel Morell, Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century:]
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On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'. [1981, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Social Dialectics: Nation and Revolution, page 13:]
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The troops contested every inch of ground.