väitellä — meaning in English

English meaning

• argue verb To exchange differing opinions, often heatedly.
• bate verb To reduce the force of something; to abate.
• contend verb To compete or struggle against someone or something.
• debate verb To argue a topic formally, usually presenting opposing sides.
• discourse noun Serious conversation or communication, spoken or written, on a particular subject.
• discuss verb To talk over a topic with someone, weighing different views.
• dispute noun A disagreement or argument between people, often a formal or ongoing one.
• wrangle verb To argue or quarrel at length, often noisily.

Senses

väitellä 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.
• bate (intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
• contend (intransitive) To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
• debate (ambitransitive, reciprocal) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. [from 14th c.]
• discourse To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
• dispute to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
• wrangle To spend (time) arguing or quarrelling.

argue — full definition

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

bate — full definition

1. verb To reduce the force of something; to abate.
2. verb To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
3. verb To cut off, remove, take away.
4. verb To leave out, except, bar.

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