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third-person singular simple present controverts, present participle controverting, simple past and past participle controverted
(transitive) To dispute, to argue about (something). examples
(transitive) To argue against (something or someone); to contradict, to deny. quotations examples
[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, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792
(intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy; to argue. examples