argue
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- To put forth reasons for or against; debate. intransitive verb …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- To attempt to prove by reasoning; maintain or contend. intransitive verb …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- To give evidence of; indicate. intransitive verb …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- To persuade or influence (another), as by presenting reasons. intransitive verb …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- To put forth reasons for or against something. intransitive verb …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- To engage in a quarrel; dispute. intransitive verb …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- To bring forward reasons to support or to overthrow a proposition, an opinion, or a measure; use arguments; reason: as, A argues in favor of a measure, B argues against it. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- To contend in argument; dispute: as, you may argue with your friend a week without convincing him. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- To debate or discuss; treat by reasoning; state the reasons for or against: as, the counsel argued the cause before the Supreme Court; the cause was well argued. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- To evince; render inferable or deducible; show; imply: as, the order visible in the universe argues a divine cause. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- To affect in any way by argument; induce a change in the mind of, or in regard to, by persuasion or reasoning: as, to
argue one out of his purpose; to argue away a false impression. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com) - 4. To accuse or charge; impeach or convict: used with of. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- Synonyms Argue, Dispute, Debate, Discuss, plead, expostulate, remonstrate. To argue is to defend one's opinion, or to exhibit reasons or proofs in favor of some assertion or principle; it implies a process of detailed proof by one or more persons. To dispute may be to call in question the statements or arguments of an opposing party: as, to
dispute about an award. It often means the alternate giving of reasons, especially by two persons. It is often applied to mere bickering, and is in general less dignified than the other words. To debate is to interchange arguments in a somewhat formal manner, as in debating societies and legislative bodies. To discuss is, by derivation, to shake or knock a subject to pieces in order to find the truth, or the best thing to be done. A debate, therefore, may be viewed as a discussion, or a discussion as a debate. Strictly, a discussion is an amicable presentation of opinions, not limited, like the others, to affirmative and negative sides of a proposition, and with the expectation on the part of all that the conclusion will be the adoption of no one person's opinion or plan unmodified. To argue a point, to dispute a position, to dispute with a neighbor, to debate a motion, to discuss a subject or a plan. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com) - To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning transitive verb …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning. transitive verb …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- To persuade by reasons. transitive verb …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- To blame; to accuse; to charge with. transitive verb …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. intransitive verb …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by
with . intransitive verb …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com) - To
prove . verb …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - To shows grounds for concluding (
that ); toindicate ,imply . verb …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - To
debate ,disagree , ordiscuss opposing ordiffering viewpoints . verb …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - To have an
argument , aquarrel . verb …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - To present (a viewpoint or an
argument therefor). verb …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - have an argument about something verb …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
- give evidence of verb …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
- present reasons and arguments verb …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
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Etymology
- c. 1300, "to make reasoned statements to prove or refute a proposition," from Old French arguer "maintain an opinion or view; harry, reproach, accuse, blame" (12c.), from Latin argutare "to prattle, prate," frequentative of arguere "make clear, make known, prove, declare, demonstrate," from PIE *argu-yo-, from root *arg- "to shine, be white, bright, clear" (see argent). Meaning "to oppose, dispute" is from late 14c. Related: Argued; arguing.1300
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- তৰ্কAssamese
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- دليلSindhi
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- არგუმენტიGeorgian
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