dispute

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  1. transitive verb To argue about; debate.
  2. transitive verb To question the truth or validity of; doubt: Her friends disputed her intentions.
  3. transitive verb To strive to win (a prize, for example); contest for: Our team disputed the visitors' claim to the championship.
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  1. Middle English disputen, from Old French desputer, from Latin disputāre, to examine : dis-, apart; see dis- + putāre, to reckon; see pau-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from ME disputen, desputen, from Old French desputer, French disputer = Spanish Portuguese disputer = Italian disputare = German disputiren = Dan disputere = Swedish disputera, from Latin disputare, dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate, from dis-, apart, + putare, reckon, consider, think, orig. make clean, clear up, related to purus, pure; see pure. Cf. compute, count, impute, repute, amputate, etc.
  2. = Dutch dispuut = G. disput, dispüt = Danish Swedish disput, dispyt, from French dispute = Spanish Portuguese Italian disputa, dispute; from the verb.
 

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