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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 Word Forms
- 徱·ܳٱ· adjective
- 徱·ܳ· noun
- ·徱·ܳٱ noun verb predisputed predisputing
- ·徱·ܳٱ verb redisputed redisputing
- ܲ·徱·ܳ·Բ adjective
Word History and Origins
Word 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
The attack near the tourist town of Pahalgam was the deadliest attack on civilians in two decades in the disputed territory.
He added there was "no dispute" Mr Mears caused the injuries to Mrs Flynn and that he had accepted responsibility for her death.
That's something disputed by a number of humanitarian relief organisations operating on the ground in Gaza.
It was the deadliest attack on civilians in two decades in the disputed territory.
Unite union members in the south and west of Scotland are set to walk out for seven days over three weeks in May in a dispute over pay.
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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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