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dispute
[ dih-spyoot ]
verb (used without object)
- 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.
Synonyms: ,
verb (used with object)
- 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.
noun
- 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.
Synonyms: , , , ,
dispute
verb
- 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
noun
- an argument or quarrel
Derived Forms
- 徱ˈܳٱ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- 徱·ܳٱ· adjective
- 徱·ܳ· noun
- ·徱·ܳٱ noun verb predisputed predisputing
- ·徱·ܳٱ verb redisputed redisputing
- ܲ·徱·ܳ·Բ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of dispute1
Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
More idioms and phrases containing dispute
see in dispute .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Mr Kasab told workers on the picket line: "This remains not just a dispute that is just morally and principally right but remains a dispute that has a resolution, and you can absolutely win."
Mary Byrne, 69, and her husband Des, 77, said they were punched and kicked in a dispute over a small garden after emigrating to Asia.
He contended that despite their disputes he did contribute “those Emmys, people going crazy” for his music, even if it took them a while to enjoy it.
The dispute over the budget is the latest sign of the sharp differences between the two parties, with the DA also challenging in the courts three other pieces of legislation - including the land expropriation act.
The Charity Commission is to investigate the bitter dispute that led to the Duke of Sussex and several others resigning from the charity he co-founded.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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