The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rival \Ri"val\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rivaledor Rivalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rivaling or Rivalling.]
To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.
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To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.
To rival thunder in its rapid course.
--Dryden.
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alt. (context US English) (present participle of rival English) vb. (context US English) (present participle of rival English)
Usage examples of "rivaling".
The dragon lumps on the Hold cliff turned their brilliant lanterns of eyes on the doings below them, rivaling the blazing glow baskets set on high standards about the Gather grounds.
Burger Chef briefly stood out as the most successful of these sound-alike imitators, growing even larger than Burger King prototype and, at one point in the late 1960s, even rivaling McDonald's in the number of franchised restaurants.
With names such as Scholg's, Luchow's, and The Platzl, these ethnically German restaurants became popular in the late eighteenth century, often rivaling much older and established eating houses.
Hot dogs already enjoyed a national following, in some cities even rivaling hamburgers in popularity.
Soon burger alternatives collectively comprised a significant share of the fast-food market, although never seriously rivaling the dominance of the hamburger.
A Chinese text describes Venus as spanning the heavens, rivaling the Sun in brightness.
It hurt, rivaling the glass splinters of sunlight piercing her skull through her unprotected eyes.
They were translucent and multicolored, often imitating and rivaling the hue and sparkle of gemstone.
Beside Hrolf sat Liriel, her face as composed as that of an obsidian statue, but her eyes burning with a heat rivaling that of the central fire.
Spherical explosions strobed overhead, rivaling the brightness of Fantoma's own primary, low in the east behind clouds of debris.
Now, while their humans slept, those fire-lizards arranged themselves on the pier their sparkling eyes rivaling the emergency lights up and down the long installation.
Otherwise, how could they have so quickly moved forward from barbarism to rivaling a Race unified perhaps before their species had evolved its present form?
Though he regarded that surface and the Big Uglies who dwelt on it as rivaling each other for unpleasantness, he added, “Some males seem to be of the opinion that research can be conducted only in sterile laboratory settings.