<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment</li><li>to contend in oral disagreement; dispute: The senator argued with the president about the new tax bill</li><li>(used with object) to state the reasons for or against: The lawyers argued the case</li><li>to maintain in reasoning: to argue that the news report must be wrong</li><li>to persuade, drive, etc., by reasoning: to argue someone out of a plan</li><li>to show; prove; imply; indicate: His clothes argue poverty</li></ul><p><strong>Tweak</strong></p><ul><li>Word of the Day</li></ul>