debatest

Verb

debate (third-person singular simple present debates, present participle debating, simple past and past participle debated)

1. (ambitransitive, reciprocal) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
   • "Debate me, coward!" snarled the completely normal intellectual.

   Synonyms:

   contend, canvass

2. (intransitive, obsolete, reciprocal) To fight.
   • Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii
3. (obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
   • Volunteers […] thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardour in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B....
4. (transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
   • He was debating where he'd spend his holiday.

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