Argue
- v. t. To blame; to accuse; to charge with.
- v. i. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.
- v. i. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; — followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him.
- v. t. To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.
- v. t. To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning.
- v. t. To persuade by reasons; as, to argue a man into a different opinion.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.