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POLEMIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polemize mean? 

POLEMIZE (verb)
  The verb POLEMIZE has 1 sense:

1. engage in a controversyplay

  Familiarity information: POLEMIZE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POLEMIZE (verb)


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 "polemize" 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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