square off

Strongest matches

• compete
• contend
• defend
• vie

Strong matches

• altercate
• attack
• battle
• brawl
• buck
• conflict
• cross
• duel
• feud
• hassle
• quarrel
• repel
• rival
• row
• rumpus
• scrap
• scuffle
• sock
• strike
• struggle
• tilt
• traverse
• withstand
• wrangle

Weak matches

• break with
• fight over
• gang up on
• knuckle with
• lay a finger on
• lay out
• put on gloves
• put up dukes
• set to
• take on

Strongest matches

• insult
• oppose
• provoke
• resist
• taunt
• threaten

Strong matches

• beard
• brave
• bully
• confront
• cope
• denounce
• disregard
• face
• front
• goad
• meet
• mock
• scorn
• spurn

Weak matches

• call one's bluff
• face off
• knock chip off shoulder
• laugh at
• make my day
• muster courage
• outdare
• run the gauntlet
• step over the line
• take one on
• throw down the gauntlet

Strongest matches

• allow
• challenge
• confront
• deal with
• encounter
• endure
• experience
• fight
• meet
• oppose
• risk
• run into
• suffer
• take

Strong matches

• abide
• accost
• affront
• bear
• beard
• brace
• brave
• brook
• contend
• countenance
• court
• cross
• dare
• defy
• eyeball
• resist
• stand
• stomach
• submit
• sustain
• swallow
• tolerate
• venture
• withstand

Weak matches

• be confronted by
• bit the bullet
• cope with
• fly in face of
• go up against
• grapple with
• make a stand
• take it
• take on
• take the bull by the horns
• tell off

Strongest matches

• begin
• deal with
• engage in
• try
• undertake
• work on

Strong matches

• accept
• attack
• attempt
• essay
• launch

Weak matches

• apply oneself
• bang away at
• come to grips with
• devote oneself to
• embark upon
• give a try
• give a whirl
• go for it
• make a run at
• pitch into
• set about
• start the ball rolling
• take a shot at
• take in hand
• take on
• try on for size
• turn one's hand to
• turn to