Contend

1. v. t. To struggle for; to contest.
2. v. i. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
3. v. i. To struggle or exert one’s self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
4. v. i. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.