Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To enter into rivalry; contend; compete.

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Examples

  • Until now, we've seen a lot of sensational, 3D HD interactive multimedia gadget filled apps, produced by developers who seem to rivalize exclusively in the domain of getting as much out of the technical specifications of the iPad as possible.

    Christian Josi: Chasing Van Gogh's Dream Christian Josi 2011

  • Until now, we've seen a lot of sensational, 3D HD interactive multimedia gadget filled apps, produced by developers who seem to rivalize exclusively in the domain of getting as much out of the technical specifications of the iPad as possible.

    Christian Josi: Chasing Van Gogh's Dream Christian Josi 2011

  • Until now, we've seen a lot of sensational, 3D HD interactive multimedia gadget filled apps, produced by developers who seem to rivalize exclusively in the domain of getting as much out of the technical specifications of the iPad as possible.

    Christian Josi: Chasing Van Gogh's Dream Christian Josi 2011

  • Until now, we've seen a lot of sensational, 3D HD interactive multimedia gadget filled apps, produced by developers who seem to rivalize exclusively in the domain of getting as much out of the technical specifications of the iPad as possible.

    Christian Josi: Chasing Van Gogh's Dream Christian Josi 2011

  • This year, not having been renewed, the corn is a failure; but the American melons ripen here in perfection, and rivalize successfully with the big French melons.

    In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

  • I shall not undertake to draw the line of demarcation between private associations of laudable views and unimposing numbers, and those whose magnitude may rivalize and jeopardize the march of regular government.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • And what they will feel more, for they value their colonies only for the bales of cloth they take from them, we have established manufactures, not only sufficient to supersede our demand from them, but to rivalize them in foreign markets.

    Letters 1760

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