英语词汇“contend”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

contendcontend /kənˈtɛnd/ ●○○ W3 verb

ETYMOLOGYcontend

Origin: 1400-1500 Old French contendre, from Latin contendere, from com- + tendere to stretch

VERB TABLE

contend

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	contend
	he, she, it	contends
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	contended
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have contended
	he, she, it	has contended
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had contended
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will contend
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have contended

Continuous Form
Present	I	am contending
	he, she, it	is contending
	you, we, they	are contending
Past	I, he, she, it	was contending
	you, we, they	were contending
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been contending
	he, she, it	has been contending
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been contending
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be contending
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been contending

1[intransitive] to compete against someone in order to gain something: contend for Ten teams are contending for the title.2[transitive] to argue or state that something is true SYN maintain: contend (that) The government contended that most of the refugees were fleeing poverty, not persecution. [Origin: 1400–1500 Old French contendre, from Latin contendere, from com- + tendere to stretch] → see also contentioncontend with something phrasal verb have to contend with something (also have something to contend with) to have to deal with something difficult or bad: Rescuers also had bad weather to contend with.