argue
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin arguōder.
Old French arguerbor.
Middle English arguen
English argue
From Middle English arguen, from Old French arguer, from Latin arguere (“to declare, show, prove, make clear, reprove, accuse”), q.v. for more. Displaced native Old English flītan and reċċan.
Inflected forms:
form: argues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: arguing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: argued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: argued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply.
pos: verb
examples: The new increase in crime argues for even tougher jail sentences, according to some.
To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.
Yusuf Bangura argues that the contractocracy thesis merely falls within what he called "third option" explanation.
gloss: To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.
He argued as follows: America should stop Lend-Lease convoying, because it needs to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
The two boys argued over a disagreement about the science project.
There is no arguing with true believers in any ideology or arrangement in which the self-interest of those in power is the organizing principle of the system.
gloss: To have an argument, a quarrel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He argued his point.
He argued that America should stop Lend-Lease convoying because it needed to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
Nonetheless, Girard argues, the very fact that Christians have chosen to forgive and thus not to answer violence directly with violence is itself already a huge victory.
Food manufacturers would argue that food additives and chemical-laden packaging extend shelf life, keep food production costs down, and enhance flavors; chemical manufacturers would argue that their various pesticides and herbicides protect crops and help farmers.
After his actions were challenged by foreign governments and Parliament initially tried to put a stop to his action, Denman returned home and argued his case with enough force that, by 1848, the Royal Navy was handed active permission and encouragement to raze every last slave factory they could find to the ground, and full authority to stop any ship, of any flag, that was thought to be a slaver, with a guarantee with^([sic]) no censure from the government.
gloss: To prove.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To accuse.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Related words: argument
argumentative
argumentation
Derived words: argie-bargie
argle-bargle
arguability
arguable
argue down
arguee
argue like a married couple
argue like an old married couple
argue out
arguer
argue round and round
arguesome
argue the toss
argufy
argy-bargy
counterargue
don't argue
downarg
outargue
overargue
reargue
unargued
unarguing
underargue
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