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Definition of disputed : of Dispute

Synonyms:

official, bastion, beachhead, arguable, truthful, emplacement, bridgehead, avowed, moot, battlefield, dugout, bald, pithy, controversial, declared, buffer zone, breach, cockpit, unbalanced, ringing

disagreed, demurred, objected, rejected, defied, differed, complained, collided

contrasted, vied, bickered, encountered, dissented, stood, contended, brawled, resisted, antagonized, protested, faced, opposed, argued, wrestled, withstood, quarreled, wrangled, hassled, confronted, clashed, struggled, defended

disavowed, repudiated, abrogated, disaffirmed, negated, silenced, denied, refuted, rejoined, challenged, disproved, conflicted, rebutted, contradicted, confuted, repealed, conflicting, abnegated, invalidated

effaced, canceled, overturned, inverted, nullified, renounced, counterbalanced, disclaimed, reversed

delved, interrogated, polled, catechized, inquired, surveyed, queried, contemplated, canvassed, investigated, sought, cross-examined, examined, asked, debated, questioned, probed, quizzed, interpolated, explored

hindered, interfered, counteracted, rebuffed, repelled, meddled, fought, intercepted, repulsed, counterattacked, impeded, obstructed, repressed, crossed, oppressed, suppressed, countered, checked, inhibited

Usage examples:

• They had not once disputed; she had not once offered him a penny for his thoughts, or asked him a single question, yet he did not even want her to go to the station with him. - "Home Again", George MacDonald.
• Greek troops had disputed the passage of Kambyses into Egypt. - "Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations", Archibald Sayce.
• This treaty, into which she entered with the seriousness of an ambassador to an unfriendly power arranging a settlement of a disputed question, had a character so sacred in her eyes that its violation by the master in the course of the afternoon came upon her like a blow. - "The Madigans", Miriam Michelson.