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compete
[ kuhm-peet ]
verb (used without object)
- to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in business.
to compete in a race;
to compete in business.
Synonyms:
compete
/ əˈ辱ː /
verb
- introften foll bywith to contend (against) for profit, an award, athletic supremacy, etc; engage in a contest (with)
Other Word Forms
- dz·· noun
- dz··Բ· adverb
- ԴDz·dz··Բ adjective
- dzܳ·dz·ٱ verb (used with object) outcompeted outcompeting
Word History and Origins
Origin of compete1
Word History and Origins
Origin of compete1
Idioms and Phrases
- cannot/can't compete with, to not be, by a great degree, as good or capable as (someone or something else):
These roses are lovely, but they can’t compete with the ones we grew back home in Ecuador.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
I was back to competing — triathlons, long runs, challenges of every kind.
She competed last year in the Solheim Cup and helped the Lancers win a Southern Section Division 1 girls’ golf championship.
“It’s going to be a fight to get this done because of the headwinds,” Allen told the crowd, noting that there are many competing priorities at the state level.
"I love being a fighter. I love training. I love competing. I love testing myself mentally and physically," he says.
Over the years, Pakistan and India have pursued competing legal avenues under the treaty brokered by the World Bank.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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