- Definition: 1. compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
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- Definition: 1. stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
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- Definition: 1. a loud resonant repeating noise; "he could hear the clang of distant bells"
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- Definition: 1. hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"
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- Definition: 1. a ship that has been destroyed at sea
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- Definition: 1. beat overwhelmingly
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- Definition: 1. crash
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- Definition: 1. break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow; "The window smashed"
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- Definition: 1. a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body; "subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response"; "electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks"
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- Definition: 1. a severe blow
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- Definition: 1. influencing strongly; "they resented the impingement of American values on European culture"
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- Definition: 1. spring back, as from a forceful thrust; "The gun kicked back into my shoulder"
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- Definition: 1. cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
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- Definition: 1. the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place"
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- Definition: 1. drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
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- Definition: 1. a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
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- Definition: 1. doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like; "his style of painting was a reaction against cubism"
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- Definition: 1. a hostile disagreement face-to-face
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- Definition: 1. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
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- Definition: 1. hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
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- Definition: 1. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"
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- Definition: 1. a glancing blow from or on the side of something (especially motor vehicles)
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- Definition: 1. suffer failure, as in some enterprise
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- Definition: 1. the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents; "these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog"
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- Definition: 1. the act of hostile groups opposing each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition"
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- Definition: 1. intense aversion
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- Definition: 1. a movement back from an impact
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- Definition: 1. the trait of being unmanageable
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