0 past simple and past participle of contend
1 to compete in order to win something:
There are three world-class tennis players contending for this title.
He's contending against someone with twice his experience.
The defendant healthcare professionals contended that the families greatly exaggerated both the severity of the patients' pain and the professional unresponsiveness to it.
It is the latter option, it is contended, that can be seen as the more demonstrable of the two.
The term "willful" seemed to escape proper notice, partially because the petitioners never contended that they had not acted willfully.
The unity they posited in the nation contended with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.
He contended that the preference was entirely aesthetic.
Within this political system, various world views contended with one another and periods marked by the domination of changing substructures followed one another.
The national secretariat contended with a constant lack of money and personnel, and the organisation only received a limited number of national offices.
If a law to secure collective title were passed and widely applied, she contended, it would constitute an act of oppression.
