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| NOUN: | A trial of skill or ability: competition, contest. See CONFLICT. | | VERB: | 1. To be contiguous or next to: abut, adjoin, border, bound2, butt2, join, neighbor, touch, verge. See NEAR. 2. To come together: close, converge. See OPEN. 3. To come up against: confront, encounter, face, run into. See MEET. 4. To enter into conflict with: encounter, engage, take on. Idioms: do (or join) battle with. See CONFLICT, MEET. 5. To do or make something equal to: equal, match, tie. See SAME. 6. To participate in or partake of personally. Also used with with: experience, feel, go through, have, know, see, suffer, taste (of), undergo. Archaic : prove. Idioms: run up against. See PARTICIPATE. 7. To present with a specified reaction: greet, react, respond. See FEELINGS, GREETING. 8. To come together face-to-face by arrangement: get together, rendezvous. See MEET. 9. To supply fully or completely: answer, fill, fulfill, satisfy. See DO.
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