redargue

Etymology

From French rédarguer, or its source Latin redarguere, from re- + arguere ‘argue’.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɛˈdɑːɡjuː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɛˈdɑɹɡjuː/

Verb

redargue (third-person singular simple present redargues, present participle redarguing, simple past and past participle redargued)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To defeat (someone) in an argument.
2. (Scotland, transitive) To refute, rebut (a proposition, argument etc.).
   • 1771, Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Penguin Classics, 1985, p.27:

     The objections you mention, I humbly conceive, are such as may be redargued, if not entirely removed.

Anagrams

• reargued, reguarde

Verb

redargue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of redarguō