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controverts

controverts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of controvert.

Meaning of controvert

Verb

controvert (third-person singular simple present controverts, present participle controverting, simple past and past participle controverted)

  1. (transitive) To dispute, to argue about (something).
  2. (transitive) To argue against (something or someone); to contradict, to deny.
    • [T]hat women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot, I think, be controverted.1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC
  3. (intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy; to argue.

Questions about controverts

What is controverts the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Controverts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of controvert.

Words near controverts in the dictionary

  1. controvertible
  2. controvertibly
  3. controverting
  4. controvertist
  5. controvertists
  6. controverts
  7. contrs.
  8. contrude
  9. contruded
  10. contrudes
  11. contruding

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