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POLEMISE

Dictionary entry overview: What does polemise mean?

• POLEMISE (verb)
The verb POLEMISE has 1 sense:

1. engage in a controversy

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

Dictionary entry details

• POLEMISE (verb)

Sense 1

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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 "polemise" is one way to...):

altercate; argufy; dispute; quarrel; scrap (have a disagreement over something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

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