debating
[ dih-beyt ]
Synonyms for debating
- answer
- bicker
- consider
- contest
- deliberate
- oppose
- question
- wrangle
- agitate
- altercate
- bandy
- canvass
- cogitate
- confab
- confute
- contend
- controvert
- demonstrate
- differ
- disprove
- dispute
- hassle
- moot
- pettifog
- prove
- reason
- rebut
- refute
- rehash
- bump heads
- chew the fat
- cross swords
- discept
- hammer away at
- hash over
- have at it
- kick around
- knock around
- lock horns
- pick a bone
- put up argument
- set to
- talk back
- talk game
- thrash out
- toss around
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR DEBATING
He was debating with himself whether he should ask her to stay to breakfast.
But Jake kept quite cool while he seemed to be debating with himself.
He was debating in his mind a question: should he or should he not enter that building?
"I don't know what I could tell you," Stan said, pretending to be debating with himself.
Inside the house Mrs. Ransford was debating the situation with her mistress.
Is this an office, Mister Raper, or is it a debating society?
He was debating whether it would be wise to return to Paris.
He paused for a long time, debating what the effect of his answer would be.
Husband and wife spent evenings and evenings debating the future of the child.
In these clothes he joins the debating society and the choir.