Contest

1. n. Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
2. v. t. To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
3. v. t. To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
4. v. t. To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
5. v. i. To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; — followed usually by with.
6. n. Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.

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.