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make play for

VERB

contend

Synonyms

STRONGEST

argue confront cope dispute go after grapple meet oppose push for resist vie

STRONG

battle clash contest controvert emulate encounter face jostle litigate oppugn push rival skirmish stand strive struggle tug withstand

WEAK

give all one's got give one's all go for go for broke go for it go for jugular have at jockey for position knock oneself out lock horns mix it up with scramble for shoot at shoot for tangle with

Antonyms

STRONGEST

agree comply go along

STRONG

hide make peace retreat surrender yield

WEAK

abandon cede desert give in give up leave

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Nor, until either warrior has exhausted his patriarchal reminiscences, do they heave up the boss and the bull-hide, or make play for a thrust at the midriff.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

The frontal hernia that crumbles the sand with its impact has a tendency to make play for some time after the emergence from the ground.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

make play for

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