Verb

• S: (v) polemize, polemise, polemicize, polemicise (engage in a controversy) "The two historians polemicized for years"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate (have a disagreement over something) "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"
• S: (v) brawl, wrangle (to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively) "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street"
• S: (v) spat (engage in a brief and petty quarrel)
• S: (v) polemize, polemise, polemicize, polemicise (engage in a controversy) "The two historians polemicized for years"
• S: (v) fall out (have a breach in relations) "We fell out over a trivial question"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame