VIE (vying)

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Irregular inflected form: vying   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does vie mean? 

• VIE (verb)
  The verb VIE has 1 sense:

1. compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

  Familiarity information: VIE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they vie    ... he / she / it vies   
Past simple: vied   
Past participle: vied   
-ing form: vying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

compete; contend; vie

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "vie"):

go for; try for (make an attempt at achieving something)

play (participate in games or sport)

run off (decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff)

race; run (compete in a race)

rival (be the rival of, be in competition with)

emulate (compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with)

equal; match; rival; touch (be equal to in quality or ability)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

Mort de ma vie! see to that one in the doorway!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have been an improver yourself, and from what I hear of Everingham, it may vie with any place in England.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My hat (which had served me for a night-cap, too) was so crushed and bent, that no old battered handleless saucepan on a dunghill need have been ashamed to vie with it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Mort de ma vie!” Aylward shouted, looking down at the dice.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)