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POLEMICISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does polemicise mean?
• POLEMICISE (verb)
The verb POLEMICISE has 1 sense:
1. engage in a controversy
Familiarity information: POLEMICISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they polemicise ... he / she / it polemicises
Past simple: polemicised
Past participle: polemicised
-ing form: polemicising
... he / she / it polemicises Past simple: polemicised
Past participle: polemicised
-ing form: polemicising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Engage in a controversy
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
polemicise; polemicize; polemise; polemize
Context example:
The two historians polemicized for years
Hypernyms (to "polemicise" is one way to...):
altercate; argufy; dispute; quarrel; scrap (have a disagreement over something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
polemic (a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma))
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