vie
/vʌɪ
/verb (vies, vying, vied) [no object]
Compete eagerly with someone in order to do or achieve something: the athletes were vying for a place in the British team...
- It is also vying for competition and prices its drinks on Wednesday and Thursday nights at special rates.
- No fewer than 82 of Lithuania's finest competitors vied for honors in this year's event.
- Competing organizations vied for the loyalties of Baptists on the Arkansas frontier.
Synonyms
compete, contend, contest, struggle, fight, battle, cross swords, lock horns, jockey, jostle, grapple, wrestle;
war, wage war, feud
Origin
Mid 16th century: probably a shortening of obsolete envy, via Old French from Latin invitare 'challenge'.
Rhymes
- line of longitude
- line of march
- line of scrimmage
- line of sight
- line of thought
- line of vision
- line one's pocket
- line one's stomach
- line out
- line printer
- liner
- -liner
- liner note
- line score
- lineside
- linesman
- line someone/thing up
- line something out
- line spacing
- line spectrum
- line squall
- line switch
- line-up
- line work
- ling