Usually means: Argue forcefully against an opinion.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word polemicize:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. polemicize: Merriam-Webster
  2. polemicize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polemicize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. polemicize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. polemicize: Vocabulary.com
  6. polemicize: Wiktionary
  7. polemicize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. polemicize: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. polemicize: Dictionary.com
  10. polemicize: Rhymezone
  11. polemicize: FreeDictionary.org
  12. polemicize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. polemicize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polemicize: Legal dictionary

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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To engage in argument.

Similar:
polemize, polemicise, argue, have words, bate, wrangle, debate, agitate, question, quarrel out, more...

Opposite:
concur, agree, support, endorse

Types:
criticize, condemn, denounce, castigate, reprobate, execrate, revil, vituperate, more...

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Similar:
polemize, polemicise, argue, have words, bate, wrangle, debate, agitate, question, quarrel out, more...

Opposite:
concur, agree, support, endorse

Types:
criticize, condemn, denounce, castigate, reprobate, execrate, revil, vituperate, more...



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