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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
While neighboring countries often have territorial disputes, he said Mexican governments, particularly those associated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party, made the U.S. the boogeyman in order to drum up domestic support, he said.
Along with others in the mining industry, he disputes the environmental claims made and has argued that the abyssal zone - 3,000m to 6,000m below sea level - has very low concentrations of life.
Not long after, McFarland disputed those claims in a since-deleted Instagram video, reassuring followers that the event’s team did have accommodations in place for festival goers and “we have talent.”
Tuesday's attack saw a group of gunmen fire on tourists near Pahalgam, a resort in the disputed Himalayan region.
That alone makes this strike both brutal and symbolic: a calculated assault not just on lives, but on a fragile sense of normalcy the Indian state has worked hard to project in the disputed region.
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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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