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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To consider something; deliberate.
  2. v. To engage in argument by discussing opposing points.
  3. v. To engage in a formal discussion or argument. See Synonyms at discuss.
  4. v. Obsolete To fight or quarrel.
  5. v. To deliberate on; consider.
  6. v. To dispute or argue about.
  7. v. To discuss or argue (a question, for example) formally.
  8. v. Obsolete To fight or argue for or over.
  9. n. A discussion involving opposing points; an argument.
  10. n. Deliberation; consideration: passed the motion with little debate.
  11. n. A formal contest of argumentation in which two opposing teams defend and attack a given proposition.
  12. n. Obsolete Conflict; strife.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To engage in combat; fight; do battle.
  2. To dispute; contend.
  3. To deliberate together; discuss or argue; also, reflect; consider.
  4. To fight or contend for; battle for, as with arms.
  6. To reflect upon; consider; think.
  7. Synonyms Argue, Dispute, Debate, etc. See argue.
  8. n. Strife; contention; contest; fight; quarrel.
  9. n. Contention by argument; discussion; dispute; controversy: as, forensic debates.
  10. n. Subject of discussion.
  11. To abate; lower.
  12. To abate; fall off.
  13. n. Debasement; degradation.


  1. n. obsolete Strife, discord.
  3. n. An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
  4. n. uncountable Discussion of opposing views.
  5. n. a type of literary composition, taking the form of discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To engage in combat for; to strive for.
  3. v. obsolete To engage in strife or combat; to fight.
  5. n. Archaic A fight or fighting; contest; strife.
  7. n. rare Subject of discussion.

WordNet 3.0

  2. v. have an argument about something
  3. n. a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
  4. v. discuss the pros and cons of an issue
  5. v. think about carefully; weigh.
  6. v. argue with one another


  2. Middle English debaten, from Old French debatre : de-, de- + battre, to beat; see batter1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)


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