Dispute: alternatives and connections

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

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

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To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

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To engage in combat for; to strive for.

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The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.

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

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To fight against; to oppose; to resist.

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The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

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of Argue

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Proof; evidence.

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The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

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

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The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.

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Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.

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Controversy; disputation; discussion.

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The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting…

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An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…

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

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Rough; stern; angry.

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A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

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To argue; to debate; to dispute.

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To quarrel noisily and outrageously.

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To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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imp. of Spit.

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To argue; to debate; to dispute.

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Proof; evidence.

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Proof; evidence.

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A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

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A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

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To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist.

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The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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

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To argue pertinaciously.

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An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message con…

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A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

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The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.

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The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quali…

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To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

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

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

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