dispute
to engage in argument or debate: She liked nothing more than to dispute with her fellow law students.
to argue vehemently; wrangle or quarrel: Those two are always disputing about something or other.
to argue or debate about; discuss: Whether excessive time spent on the internet can be called an addiction is hotly disputed.
to argue against; call into question: Historians dispute this claim, suggesting Raleigh could not possibly have discovered the potato in the places he visited.
to quarrel or fight about; contest: We stopped to watch a puffed-up crow disputing territory with a cat.
Archaic. to strive against; oppose: to dispute an advance of troops.
a debate, controversy, or difference of opinion: Players were elated when the equal pay dispute was finally resolved.
a wrangling argument; quarrel: Some women at the end of the bar were having a noisy dispute about who should be the designated driver.
Idioms about dispute
in dispute,
being fought or argued over; debated or contested; unresolved: The authorship of the recently discovered text is in dispute.Both countries argue that the territories in dispute originally belonged to them.
engaged in an argument or disagreement: The program enables parties in dispute to settle their differences over the internet without face-to-face mediation.
Origin of dispute
1synonym study For dispute
Other words for dispute
Other words from dispute
- dis·pute·less, adjective
- dis·put·er, noun
- pre·dis·pute, noun, verb, pre·dis·put·ed, pre·dis·put·ing.
- re·dis·pute, verb, re·dis·put·ed, re·dis·put·ing.
- un·dis·put·ing, adjective
Words that may be confused with dispute
- dispute , refute
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British Dictionary definitions for dispute
to argue, debate, or quarrel about (something)
(tr; may take a clause as object) to doubt the validity, etc, of
(tr) to seek to win; contest for
(tr) to struggle against; resist
an argument or quarrel
Origin of dispute
1Derived forms of dispute
- disputer, noun
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Other Idioms and Phrases with dispute
see in dispute.
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