argue

From Old French arguer, from Latin arguere (“to declare, show, prove, make clear, reprove, accuse”), q.v. for more.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.ɡjuː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/

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argue (third-person singular simple present argues, present participle arguing, simple past and past participle argued)

1. To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply.
   • 1910, ‘Saki’, "The Soul of Laploshka", Reginald in Russia:

     To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.

2. (intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.

   He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.

   He argued as follows: America should stop Lend-Lease convoying, because it needs to fortify its own Army with the supplies.

   The two boys argued because of disagreement about the science project.

3. (intransitive) To have an argument, a quarrel.
4. (transitive) To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).

   He argued his point.

   He argued that America should stop Lend-Lease convoying because it needed to fortify its own Army with the supplies.

5. (obsolete, transitive) To prove.

• argument
• argumentative
• argumentation

• argue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• argue in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Gauer, Graue, auger, augre, rugae

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ɡy/

argue

1. first-person singular present indicative of arguer
2. third-person singular present indicative of arguer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of arguer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of arguer
5. second-person singular imperative of arguer

• auger, Auger
• urgea

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ɡu.e/, [ˈar.ɡʊ.ɛ]

argue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of arguō