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# vie

«vie» in Mova's school dictionary: **to try hard to be better than someone else; to compete** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (vies, vied, vying)

### meaning for a pupil

To vie is to try hard to be better than someone else; to compete. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vie/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in races and contests, heroes and animals vie with each other for the prize

### examples

- The two girls vied for first place in the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vie/#x1)
- Yet the pony could vie with any horse in the stables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vie/#x2)
- Many runners vied to win the medal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vie/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vie» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vie/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.