Argue: alternatives and connections

To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

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To argue pertinaciously.

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A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

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To clamor; to contest noisily.

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To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

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To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wra…

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To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress o…

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To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.

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To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

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To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.

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An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.

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A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

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An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in…

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To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

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To separate combatants by intervening.

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To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

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The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…

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Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.

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Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.

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Proof; evidence.

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Proof; evidence.

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The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositi…

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The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositi…

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Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.

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Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.

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A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.

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A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.

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One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.

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One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.

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To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.

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To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.

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To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

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To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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To engage in combat for; to strive for.

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That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.

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To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

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A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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Saw.

Argue overlaps with say, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Saw.

Argue should be used when a person supports a position with reasons.