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ARGUING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
Example:
they were involved in a violent argument
Synonyms:
arguing; argument; contention; contestation; controversy; disceptation; disputation; tilt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("arguing" is a kind of...):
conflict; difference; difference of opinion; dispute (a disagreement or argument about something important)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arguing"):
argle-bargle; argy-bargy (a verbal dispute; a wrangling argument)
firestorm (an outburst of controversy)
sparring (an argument in which the participants are trying to gain some advantage)
polemic (a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma))
fight (an intense verbal dispute)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb argue
Context examples:
It was not yet seven, she said, by a long way; she knew her rights and she would have them; and she was still arguing with me when a little low whistle sounded a good way off upon the hill.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Two or three of my father’s acquaintances who had been sitting close by drew up their chairs to us, and soon quite a circle had formed, all talking loudly and arguing upon sea matters, shaking their long, red-tipped pipes at each other as they spoke.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Who, as he saw Sheridan and Fox eagerly arguing as to whether Caleb Baldwin, the Westminster costermonger, could hold his own with Isaac Bittoon, the Jew, would have guessed that the one was the deepest political philosopher in Europe, and that the other would be remembered as the author of the wittiest comedy and of the finest speech of his generation?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
