あらそう – Vocabulary details

あらそう

Verb (5-dan, う, intransitive)

1. to compete; to contest; to contend

2. to quarrel; to argue; to dispute; to be at variance; to oppose

3. to deny (e.g. evidence)

usu. in negative form

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to race against time

to fight with each other; to fight amongst yourselves

to compete for the first place; to be one of the best

彼かれらは賞しょうを目め指ざしてあらそっている。

They are contending for the prize.

私わたしはあらそうためにここにいるのではありません。

I'm not here to fight.

その囚しゅう人じん達たちはまるで狂きょう人じんのように互たがいにあらそった。

The prisoners fought one another like so many mad people.

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