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oppugn

[ uh-pyoon ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to assail by criticism, argument, or action.
  2. to call in question; dispute.


oppugn

/ 蓹藞辫箩耻藧苍 /

verb

  1. tr to call into question; dispute
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 辞辫藞辫耻驳苍别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辞辫路辫耻驳苍顎侥谤 noun
  • 耻苍顎卭辫路辫耻驳苍别诲顎 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of oppugn1

1400鈥50; late Middle English < Latin 辞辫辫耻驳苍腻谤别 to oppose, attack, equivalent to op- op- + 辫耻驳苍腻谤别 to fight, derivative of pugnus fist; pugilism
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of oppugn1

C15: from Latin 辞辫辫耻驳苍腻谤别, from ob- against + 辫耻驳苍腻谤别 to fight, from pugnus clenched fist; see pugnacious
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Example Sentences

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Also, g before n, as gnat, gnaw, gnarl, gnome, gnash, reign, deign, sign, consign, assign, design, condign, benign, impugn, oppugn, arraign, campaign.

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He never exults in his triumphs, nor is querulous on those who oppugned them.

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Say, could not you twins, now, once come forward and speak as petition-masters-general in the halls of the Diet, or, as magistri sententiarum, oppugn one another within the walls of the universities on Commencement days?

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I have amused myself by selecting from out this wealth of observations a group of facts wherein are displayed the secular instincts, the "anagke," of the species鈥攐ppugned, shattered, vanquished.

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For, though behind by a cannon or schooner, That nation still is predominant Whose pulse beats quickest in zeal to oppugn or Succour another, in wrong or want, Passing the frontier in love and abhorrence.

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