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rival English

Meaning rival meaning

What does rival mean?
Definitions in simple English

rival Verb

— To oppose or compete with.

rival

— verb (= equal, touch, match) be equal to in quality or ability Nothing can rival cotton for durability Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents — noun (= competition) the contestant you hope to defeat he had respect for his rivals he wanted to know what the competition was doing — verb be the rival of, be in competition with we are rivaling for first place in the race

Synonyms rival synonyms

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rival English » English

competitor opponent enemy compete contender adversary contestant match foe competition challenger vie equal antagonist emulate contend contest compete with rivalry oppose touch racer partner opposition opposing fighter challenge be rivals warrior villain vier vie with tournament strive rebel race other party opposer opponet opponents not a friend hatred hate fight fellow envious enmity emulator customer corrival

Topics rival topics

What do people use rival to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Game
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Cooperate with

Compete with

Conjugation rival conjugation

How do you conjugate rival?

rival · verb

Examples rival examples

How do I use rival in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom set fire to his rival's house out of jealousy.
He criticized his rival severely.
I find a good rival in him.
He was poached by a rival company.
When it comes to good quality wine, no country can rival France.
The girl wanted all her father's love for herself and tended to see her mother merely as a rival.
The local boys got into a fight with a rival group from a neighboring town.
Their job is to make fake orders, in order to cause trouble for the rival company.
She's my rival.
He's my rival.
Adidas and Puma are Bavarian shoe companies started by two rival brothers: Adolf and Rudolf.
Tom is my rival.
Have you tried our rival's chocolate?
I'm Tom's rival.
Two rival parties are essential to good democratic government.
Don't hold your rival cheap.
They are both well-known columnists, but they work at rival newspapers.
Lincoln greeted his former political rival.
Sami is part of a rival gang.
I have no rival.

Movie subtitles

To Shirley and Rival.
A rival dog owner, perhaps.
Romeo challenges his rival, Tybalt, and wounds him in a duel.
A rival hiding in the shadow.
Your hated rival.
A rival, huh?
Sometimes I think I'd prefer a rival of flesh and blood.
And that is, that wherever she goes, there is always in her life a permanent and undefeated rival.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you my rival.
Because I've got a rival?
I'm not your rival, you know that very well.
You have a rival.
To my only rival.
Were it to fall into the hands of. a business rival. Yes.
Ai-yah! You mean I've got a rival in that bunch?
Gentleman, allow me to introduce you to our rival competitors.
He's presented here as a romantic rival for Flora, and as a not particularly charming suitor.
He pointed out that some of the changes Sherriff made, such as adding Flora and her father, expanding Kemp's role, and making him a romantic rival, presented an interesting parallel.
My hated rival.
I wouldn't advise you to become my rival.
Rival?
A rival.
Moreover, if I wished to obliterate such a rival as your talented but highly neurotic husband I should employ simpler measures.
His jealousy will make Martin hide in room 9 to catch his perceived rival in the act.
A business rival.
When Gjermund saw that Berit was dancing with his rival, he was consumed with jealousy.
That's the reason why M. Villard spent his night trying to free Cornusse of all the charges and to accuse his rival instead.
Friends, I beg your indulgence for just a few final remarks in reply to my old friend and rival for Congress, Hank Allen, who reminds me of a dog I had when I was a boy.
Jacques Rival.
My rival!
WE HAVE A RIVAL, THAT IS.
Is that your rival?
No, rival firm.
A gentleman does not face a rival deprived of his trousers!
Your rival is some long-shot filly.

News and current affairs

But his half-brother and more powerful rival, Prince Naif, the Minister of Interior, ordered the arrests, trial, and imprisonment of 13 reformers in March 2004.
It reached this zenith by surpassing cash-strapped Russia - long its only rival as a mass imprisonment society - after Russia released thousands of inmates so as to save money.
Finally, it would increase the relative vulnerability of America's main strategic rival, China, which is becoming increasingly dependent on Middle East energy supplies.
For example, Uganda's Idi Amin and Ethiopia's Haile Mariam Mengistu--deposed tyrants who rival Saddam in the scale of their criminality--have taken care not to stray from their shelters in Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe, respectively.
Since then, the Kurds have suffered under the despotic rule of rival ethnic groups.
More than half a century ago, the godfather of artificial intelligence, Alan Turing, argued that the brain's function could all be reduced to mathematics and that, someday, a computer would rival human intelligence.
In a historical reversal, Japan has found itself on the defensive against the increasingly muscular foreign policy of its former colony and old rival.
Like rival businesses in a single large corporation, other cities are creating their own incubators and lures for talent as well.
This includes even Japan, China's traditional rival.
It is possible that the opposition's awkward coalition will be tested by their rival presidential dreams.
The scandal looked like an obvious weapon to be used in the war of rival models of business organization: critics portrayed Parmalat as the latest manifestation of a crisis of European-style family capitalism.
Nothing in Asia's history, however, remotely compares to Europe's half-century of division and veritable occupation by two rival superpowers.
By reinforcing negative stereotypes of rival countries, such squabbles over history and remembrance sow fragmentation and instability, and have certainly fueled the region's recent territorial disputes.
This will not change. A stronger EU is America's natural partner, occasional competitor, but certainly not a rival.
Today, Somalia remains a dysfunctional state, as rival clans, jihadists, and an interim government with Ethiopian support compete for power.
But their failure to deliver better lives to their citizens, together with the discrediting of left-wing ideologies following the Soviet Union's collapse, fueled the rise of a rival movement: political Islam.
Strauss-Kahn is, of course, likely to be Sarkozy's Socialist rival in the next French presidential election.
Incompetent leaders blame legislatures for their failures; legislators blame presidents from rival parties.
This political model is now seen as a serious rival to American-style liberal democracy, and perhaps it is.
Perhaps we will eventually see the emergence of a rival Fed Subway blog, though I am not optimistic about the prospects for an ECB U-Bahn blog anytime soon.
After all, even rival powers like China and the US or India and Pakistan share an interest in preventing the world's most dangerous weapons from falling under the control of its most fanatical minds.
Estimates of its newfound oil reserves place it in eighth place among oil-producing nations, ahead of Nigeria as well as Brazil's rival for influence in Latin America,Venezuela.
SHANGHAI - The last rival superpower to the United States, the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1991.
Park, who lost her first bid for the GNP's nomination to Lee in 2007, needs to ensure that no rupture with her erstwhile rival knocks her off the path to victory in 2012.
In other words, China does not have the capability to rout any rival militarily, let alone enforce its will on Asia.

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