Synonyms for tug
noun quick pullbattled
verb. fight, struggle
battling
verb. fight, struggle
contend
verb. compete, fight
- argue
- battle
- clash
- confront
- contest
- controvert
- cope
- dispute
- emulate
- encounter
- face
- give all one's got
- give one's all
- go after
- go for
- go for broke
- go for it
- go for jugular
- grapple
- have at
- jockey for position
- jostle
- knock oneself out
- litigate
- lock horns
- make play for
- meet
- mix it up with
- oppose
- oppugn
- push
- push for
- resist
- rival
- scramble for
- shoot at
- shoot for
- skirmish
- stand
- strive
- struggle
- tangle with
- tug
- vie
- withstand
contended
verb. compete, fight
- argue
- battle
- clash
- confront
- contest
- controvert
- cope
- dispute
- emulate
- encounter
- face
- give all one's got
- give one's all
- go after
- go for
- go for broke
- go for it
- go for jugular
- grapple
- have at
- jockey for position
- jostle
- knock oneself out
- litigate
- lock horns
- make play for
- meet
- mix it up with
- oppose
- oppugn
- push
- push for
- resist
- rival
- scramble for
- shoot at
- shoot for
- skirmish
- stand
- strive
- struggle
- tangle with
- tug
- vie
- withstand
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Word Origin & History
Example Sentences fortug
She swayed forward bodily to his tug, and nearly went off the chair.
And many a tug did this lordly fear cost us both, God knows!
Duncan removed one hand from the pocket the better to tug at his moustache.
Purplish shadows had already begun to dim the tug and dock and ocean.
That tug looks like a water bug 'itched to a 'ouse-boat—it's hunreasonable!
A tug couldn't do nothin' with sails—she isn't made for sails!
As they had suspected, there was no sign of the tug's crew aboard.
Do you mean you object to sailing this tug on account of some imaginary thing?
I must disable this machinery and give the tug a chance to escape.
By this time the tug had slowed down a trifle and a boat put out from her.