intransitive. To contend, strive; also, to contend in words, chide, wrangle. Const. against, on, with.

intransitive. To be hostile; to offer resistance, fight, struggle.

To contend with opposing arguments or assertions; to debate or discourse argumentatively; to discuss, argue, hold disputation; often, to debate in a…

intransitive. To contend in debate; to wrangle, argue with or against. Also transitive with it. Obsolete.

To contend in words, dispute. Chiefly followed by indirect question. Obsolete.

Const., with (in general sense), against (in direct opposition to the position of), an opponent; for or against a proposition; about (of obsolete)…

= toil, v.1 3, to dispute, argue, esp. to contend or plead in a lawsuit.

intransitive. To contend in a lawsuit or an argument; to dispute, argue. Obsolete.

To engage in argument, debate, or controversy; to debate, dispute.

intransitive. To dispute vehemently or angrily; to argue.

intransitive. To quarrel, argue, fall out.

To be at dissension or variance; to quarrel.

To strive in argument or debate; to dispute keenly; to argue. Const. with, against (a person), for, against, about (a matter).

intransitive. To engage in controversy; to contend, dispute, argue (with a person).

To argue or debate; to engage in controversy; formerly also, to dispute or discuss publicly as at a university, for or against a thesis, etc…

= contest, v. (in different senses).

intransitive. to fend and prove: to argue, wrangle.

intransitive. To contend or strive (with or against) in argument; to dispute or debate keenly, wrangle.

To contend in debate. Obsolete.

intransitive. To engage in controversy; to contend, dispute, argue (with a person); = controvert, v. 2.

intransitive. To dispute, debate; (also) to express disagreement; to differ from (an opinion, etc.).

intransitive. To argue, wrangle.

intransitive. To ‘cross swords’; to contend, dispute.

intransitive. Apparently: to dispute, wrangle.

To dispute; to bandy words.

To argue, dispute, wrangle.

intransitive. To start up sharply or actively; to engage in a dispute. U.S.

To lay (a thing) across or athwart another; to set (things) across each other; to place crosswise. Also, to place (one limb) over another.

intransitive. To bandy words, dispute, wrangle.

To give and take (blows, words, reproaches, compliments, etc.); to exchange. to bandy words = to argue pertinaciously, wrangle.

intransitive. = polemicize, v.

intransitive. To engage in controversy (with a person or about a topic).

intransitive. To cavil, argue; to prevaricate. Cf. caffling, adj.

intransitive. To argue or write polemically; to carry on a controversy.

intransitive. To quibble, wrangle.

to argue, to nag.

intransitive. To bite or snap (esp. at a thing). Also figurative, esp. to utter or exchange sharp, snapping words or remarks. Chiefly northern and Sc…