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verb
- To call something into question or dispute.
- To dispute (something).
- To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- To dare (someone).
- To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- To be difficult or challenging for.
- To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- To make a formal objection to a juror.
noun
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- A bid to overcome something.
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
- A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
verb
- To discuss or debate.
- To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
- To argue or plead in a supposed case.
- To say, utter, also insinuate.
- To take root and begin to grow.
- To make or declare irrelevant.
- To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
adj
- Being an exercise of thought; academic.
- Having no practical consequence or relevance.
- Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
noun
- A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
- A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
- A mutual follower on a social media platform.
- Vagina.
- A moot court.
- A ring for gauging wooden pins.
- The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
- An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
- A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
- A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
- Talk.
verb
- To debate, to discuss.
- To seek the support of voters or a constituency in a forthcoming election or poll; to campaign.
- To thoroughly examine or investigate (something) physically or by discussion; to debate, to gather opinion, to scrutinize.
- To seek the support of (voters or a constituency) in a forthcoming election or poll through personal solicitation or public addresses.
- To scrutinize (the ballot in an election or the votes cast) and reject irregular votes; also, to challenge or dispute (an election result).
- To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc. from (people or a place)
- To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc.; to conduct a survey.
noun
- A seeking or solicitation, or determination, of support or favourable votes in a forthcoming election or poll.
- A scrutiny of the votes cast in an election to reject irregular votes; also, a tally, audit, and certification of votes.
- A seeking or solicitation of donations, information, opinions, support, etc.
verb
- To argue or squabble with (someone).
- To find fault; to cavil.
- To argue fiercely; to contend; to squabble; to cease to be on friendly terms, to fall out.
noun
- A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).
- Often preceded by a form of to have: a basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this.
- A propensity to quarrel; quarrelsomeness.
- An arrow or bolt for a crossbow or an arbalest (“a late, large type of crossbow”), traditionally with the head square in its cross section.
- A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window.
- A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively.
verb
- To quarrel or argue briefly.
- To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
- To spawn. Used of shellfish as above.
- To strike with a spattering sound.
noun
- A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
- A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
- A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
- A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear.
- A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
- An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.
- A light blow with something flat.
- The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
noun
- Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
- Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- The entire set of something; all of something.
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- The action or an instance of sending something out
- A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
- A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
- Any question or situation to be resolved
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
verb
- To rush out, to sally forth.
- To deliver for use.
- To deliver by authority.
- To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
- To extend into, to open onto.
- To send out; to put into circulation.
- To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
noun
- Conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion.
- The situation where one or more components of a signal transduction pathway affect another pathway.
- Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.
- A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue.
verb
noun
- Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate.
- An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
verb
- to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss
- to strive or contend about; to contest
- to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
- to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
verb
- To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
- To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.
- To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
- To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
- In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
noun
- an instance of questioning
- a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
- the subject matter at issue
- uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- an informal reference to a marriage proposal
verb
verb
- To draw into conversation.
- To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
- To come into gear with.
- To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
- To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
- To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
- To guarantee or promise (to do something).
- To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
- To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
- To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
- To enter into battle.
verb
verb
- To talk of; to discuss.
- To talk more than a few words.
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
noun
- A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- A chat room.
- An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- Informal conversation.
- The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.
- Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation.
verb
- To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
- To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
- To be attractive.
- To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
- Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
- To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
- To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
- Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
- To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
- Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
noun
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
- At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
- A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
- An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
- A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
- A power to attract or interest.
verb
- direct a question at someone
- speak to
- give a speech to
- put an address on (an envelope)
- address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- access or locate by address
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- speak to someone
- adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting
noun
- (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
- the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with
- the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
- the manner of speaking to another individual
- a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described
- written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location
- the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball
- social skill
verb
- To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
- To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
- To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
- To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
- To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
- To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
- To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
- To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
noun
- An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.
- Reputation.
- The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
- A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
verb
- To bring into debate; to agitate.
- To incite to action.
- Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
- To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
- To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
- To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
- To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
noun
verb
- To discuss; to talk about.
- To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
- To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- To gossip; to create scandal.
- Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- To speak (a certain language).
- To confess, especially implicating others.
noun
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- A lecture.
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- A major topic of social discussion.
- Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
- Gossip; rumour.
noun
- The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.
- A demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and is therefore less likely to tell the truth now.
- An accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state, such as treason.
- The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office.
- The state of being impeached.
verb
- To discuss.
- To flit quickly from place to place.
- To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.
- To have a team's first batter of the inning come to bat for a second time (after all of the others in the batting line-up have batted). (See the usage note below.)
verb
- To debate (or dispose of) a motion.
- To believe or opine (that).
- To think about seriously.
- To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
- To assign some quality to.
- To look at attentively.
- To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.
- To think of doing.
- To take up as an example.
verb
- To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
- To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
- To believe (something is reasonable) and argue (for it); to advocate.
- To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
- contend with: To try to cope with a difficulty or problem.
verb
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- To create, increase or develop.
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- To open, initiate.
- To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To collect or amass.
- To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- To promote.
- To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To bring up; to grow.
- To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To exponentiate, to involute.
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
noun
noun
- Lively contention or debate, skirmish.
- A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.
- A loud, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.
- A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
- Any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.
- Small cut and polished gemstones sold in lots.
adj
verb
verb
- To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
- To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
noun
- An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
- A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
- Discussion of opposing views.
- An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
intj
- A request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion.
- Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.
- A meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in song lyrics.
- An expression of surprise.
- An exclamation to get attention.
- A protest or reprimand.
- An informal greeting, similar to hi.
noun
noun
- An argument; an altercation.
- A large or extravagant meal.
- A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
- The blurring of a tattoo due to ink penetrating too far into the skin and dispersing.
- A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
- A sporting contest that is decidedly one-sided and whose outcome is no longer in doubt.
- An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.
- A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
- A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
- An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
- The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
- An instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.
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