Usually means: Competed closely with another entity.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. rivaled: Merriam-Webster
  2. rivaled: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rivaled: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rivaled: Vocabulary.com
  5. rivaled: Wordnik
  6. rivaled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. rivaled: Wiktionary
  8. Rivaled, rivaled: Dictionary.com
  9. rivaled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Rivaled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Rivaled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. rivaled: FreeDictionary.org
  13. rivaled: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rivaled: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rivaled: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rivaled: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rival as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rival)

noun:  A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
noun:  Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
noun:  (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
adjective:  Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
verb:  (transitive) To oppose or compete with.
verb:  To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
verb:  To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
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