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Thesaurus: argue

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

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  1. v. i. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.
  2. v. i. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him.
  3. v. t. To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.
  4. v. t. To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning.
  5. v. t. To persuade by reasons; as, to argue a man into a different opinion.
  6. v. t. To blame; to accuse; to charge with.
  7. v. present reasons and arguments
  8. v. have an argument about something
  9. v. give evidence of
  10. v:100 v. present reasons and arguments v. have an argument about something v. give evidence of