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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To argue about; debate.
  2. v. To question the truth or validity of; doubt: Her friends disputed her intentions.
  3. v. To strive to win (a prize, for example); contest for: Our team disputed the visitors' claim to the championship.
  4. v. To strive against; resist: disputed the actions of his competitors.
  5. v. To engage in discussion or argument; debate. See Synonyms at discuss.
  6. v. To quarrel angrily.
  7. n. A verbal controversy; a debate.
  8. n. An angry altercation; a quarrel. See Synonyms at argument.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To engage in argument or discussion; argue in opposition; oppose another in argument: absolutely or with with or against.
  2. Hence To engage in altercation; wrangle; quarrel.
  3. To strive or contend in opposition to a competitor; compete: as, to dispute for the prize.
  4. To argue about; discuss.
  5. To argue against; attempt to disprove or overthrow by reasoning; controvert; deny: as, to dispute an assertion, opinion, claim, or the like.
  6. To call in question; express doubt of or opposition to; object to.
  7. To strive to gain or to maintain; contest: as, to dispute a prize.
  8. To encounter; strive against.
  9. Synonyms Debate, Discuss, etc. See argue.
  10. n. Argumentative contention: earnest discussion of opposing views or opinions; controversial strife.
  11. n. Wrangling; contention; strife; quarrel.
  12. n. A contest of any kind.
  13. n. Synonyms Controversy, Dispute (see controversy), debate, discussion, altercation.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
  2. n. Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
  3. n. Contest; struggle; quarrel.
  4. v. To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
  5. v. To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
  6. v. To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.
  7. v. To strive or contend about; to contest.
  8. v. To struggle against; to resist.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle.
  2. v. To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
  3. v. To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.
  4. v. To strive or contend about; to contest.
  5. v. obsolete To struggle against; to resist.
  6. n. Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
  7. n. Contest; struggle; quarrel.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. take exception to
  2. n. a disagreement or argument about something important
  3. v. have a disagreement over something
  4. n. coming into conflict with

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English disputen, from Old French desputer (French disputer), from Latin disputare ("to dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate"), from dis- ("apart") + putare ("to reckon, consider, think, originally make clean, clear up"), related to purus ("pure"). Compare compute, count, impute, repute, amputate, etc. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English disputen, from Old French desputer, from Latin disputāre, to examine : dis-, apart; see dis- + putāre, to reckon. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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