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riidellä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • argue verb To exchange differing opinions, often heatedly.
  • contend verb To compete or struggle against someone or something.
  • quarrel noun An angry argument or dispute, especially between people who know each other.
  • row noun A straight line of people or things placed next to each other.
  • tangle verb To twist together into a knotted, confused mass.
  • wrangle verb To argue or quarrel at length, often noisily.

Senses

riidellä is used for these senses in English:

  • argue (intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle.
  • argue (intransitive) To have an argument, a quarrel.
  • contend (intransitive) To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
  • quarrel (intransitive, also, figuratively) To argue fiercely; to contend; to squabble; to cease to be on friendly terms, to fall out.
  • row (intransitive) To argue noisily.
  • tangle (intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
  • wrangle To spend (time) arguing or quarrelling.
  • wrangle (also, figuratively) To quarrel angrily and noisily; to bicker.

argue — full definition

  1. verb To exchange differing opinions, often heatedly.
  2. verb To give reasons in support of a position.

contend — full definition

  1. verb To compete or struggle against someone or something.
  2. verb To argue firmly that something is true.
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