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debate

the formal presentation of and opposition to a stated proposition (usually followed by a vote)

argue with one another; "We debated the question of abortion"; "John debated Mary"

discuss the pros and cons of an issue

Synonyms:

• Kilkenny cats,
• address,
• after-dinner speech,
• agitate,
• air,
• airing,
• allocution,
• altercation,
• analysis,
• analyze,
• application,
• argue,
• argument,
• argumentation,
• back down,
• balance,
• be abstracted,
• bickering,
• brood,
• buzz session,
• canvass,
• canvassing,
• cat-and-dog life,
• chalk talk,
• chew the cud,
• cloture,
• cogitation,
• colloquium,
• combat,
• comment upon,
• committee consideration,
• concentration,
• conference,
• conflict,
• consider,
• consideration,
• contemplate,
• contemplation,
• contend,
• contention,
• contentiousness,
• contest,
• contestation,
• controversy,
• controvert,
• cut and thrust,
• deal with,
• debating,
• declaim,
• declamation,
• deliberate,
• deliberate upon,
• deliberation,
• demagogue,
• demur,
• dialectic,
• dialogue,
• diatribe,
• digest,
• discept,
• discourse about,
• discuss,
• discussion,
• disputation,
• dispute,
• division,
• elocute,
• enmity,
• eulogy,
• examination,
• examine,
• exchange of views,
• exchange views,
• exhortation,
• falter,
• fear,
• fighting,
• filibuster,
• filibustering,
• filing,
• first reading,
• forensic,
• forensic address,
• formal speech,
• forum,
• funeral oration,
• go into,
• handle,
• hang back,
• harangue,
• heed,
• hem and haw,
• hesitate,
• hold forth,
• hortatory address,
• hostility,
• hover,
• hum and haw,
• inaugural,
• inaugural address,
• introduction,
• introspect,
• invective,
• investigate,
• investigation,
• jeremiad,
• jib,
• joint discussion,
• knock around,
• litigation,
• logical analysis,
• logical discussion,
• logomachy,
• logrolling,
• meditate,
• meditation,
• moot,
• mouth,
• mull over,
• muse,
• open discussion,
• open forum,
• orate,
• oration,
• out-herod Herod,
• panel discussion,
• paper war,
• pass under review,
• pause,
• pep talk,
• perorate,
• peroration,
• perpend,
• philippic,
• pitch,
• play around with,
• play with,
• polemic,
• ponder,
• ponder over,
• prepared speech,
• prepared text,
• public speech,
• pull back,
• quarrel,
• quarreling,
• quarrelsomeness,
• question,
• rabble-rouse,
• rant,
• rap,
• rap session,
• read,
• reading,
• reason,
• reason about,
• reason the point,
• recital,
• recitation,
• recite,
• reflect,
• reflection,
• refuting,
• retreat,
• review,
• rodomontade,
• roll call,
• ruminate,
• ruminate over,
• sales talk,
• salutatory,
• salutatory address,
• say,
• scrapping,
• screed,
• scruple,
• second reading,
• seminar,
• set speech,
• shilly-shally,
• shy,
• sift,
• speculate,
• speech,
• speechification,
• speeching,
• spiel,
• spout,
• squabbling,
• steamroller methods,
• stick at,
• stickle,
• stop to consider,
• straddle the fence,
• strain at,
• strife,
• struggle,
• study,
• symposium,
• tabling,
• take up,
• talk,
• talk about,
• talk of,
• talk over,
• talkathon,
• think over,
• think through,
• think twice about,
• third reading,
• thrash out,
• thresh out,
• tirade,
• toss,
• town meeting,
• toy with,
• treat,
• treatment,
• tub-thump,
• valediction,
• valedictory,
• valedictory address,
• ventilate,
• ventilation,
• vote,
• war,
• war of words,
• warfare,
• weigh,
• withdraw,
• words,
• wrangle,
• wrangling,
• yield