|Origin:||desputer, from Latin disputare 'to discuss', from putare 'to think'|
to say that something such as a fact or idea is not correct or true:
The main facts of the book have never been disputed.
Few would dispute that travel broadens the mind.
2 [intransitive and transitive] formal
to argue or disagree with someone
dispute (something) with somebody
Hazlitt, though much younger, was soon disputing with Wordsworth on equal terms.
What happened next is hotly disputed.
to try to get control of something or win something:
Soviet forces disputed every inch of ground.