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POLEMICISE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage in a controversy

Example:

The two historians polemicized for years

Synonyms:

polemicise; polemicize; polemise; polemize

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "polemicise" is one way to...):

altercate; argufy; dispute; quarrel; scrap (have a disagreement over something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

polemic (a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma))

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