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Rival

noun

The contestant you hope to defeat. Synonyms: challenger, competition, competitor, contender. "He wanted to know what the competition was doing"

verb

(past & past part. rivaled or rivalled; pres. part. rivaling or rivalling)

Be equal to in quality or ability. Synonyms: equal, match, touch. "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues" , "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"

Be the rival of, be in competition with.

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"Rival" Quotes from Famous Books

... a world of tears murmurs back my woes! Does not my heart yearn to be with her; and shall I not follow its bidding? No, I must wait till I am free; and then I will take my Freedom (a glad prize) and lay it at her feet and tell her my proud love of her that would not brook a rival in her dishonour, and that would have her all or none, and gain her or lose myself ...

— Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion • William Hazlitt

... within a few feet of them, was sure that the lover who approached was the Dave Humes in question, he advanced with such an angry stride, and laying his hand on his rival's shoulder, turned him ...

— Lodusky • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... vehicles—a rival of Mr Sargent's—is travelling in our company. He drove his buggy against a tree and knocked its top off, to the intense delight ...

— Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 • Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle

... Priest's first speech, in the attitude of the Chorus, and in Oedipus' own language after the discovery. It partly explains the hostility of Apollo, who is not a mere motiveless Destroyer but a true Olympian crushing his Earth-born rival. And in the same way the peculiar royalty of Jocasta, which makes Oedipus at times seem not the King but the Consort of the Queen, brings her near to that class of consecrated queens described in Dr. Frazer's Lectures on the Kingship, ...

— Oedipus King of Thebes - Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes • Sophocles

... are both medicinal and magic. Thus the bezoar stones from three different plants are supposed to be efficacious in the hour of birth, but, at the same time, in all the doings of life they give the fortunate possessor success over his rival. Hence they are called pandug, that is, they will enable one to get ahead of or beat another. There is a bezoar stone from the banti tree that gets its owner to a place more quickly than ...

— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan

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