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POLEMIZE
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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 "polemize" 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))
