POLEMICIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polemicize mean? 

• POLEMICIZE (verb)
  The verb POLEMICIZE has 1 sense:

1. engage in a controversy

  Familiarity information: POLEMICIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLEMICIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they polemicize    ... he / she / it polemicizes   
Past simple: polemicized   
Past participle: polemicized   
-ing form: polemicizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage in a controversy

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

polemicise; polemicize; polemise; polemize

Context example:

The two historians polemicized for years

Hypernyms (to "polemicize" is one way to...):

altercate; argufy; dispute; quarrel; scrap (have a disagreement over something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

polemic (a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma))