Dispute and Support

Dispute

Dispute verb - To demand proof of the truth or rightness of.
Usage example: a whole slew of relatives eager to dispute his claim to being the sole heir

Support is an antonym for dispute.

Support

Support verb - To give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of.
Usage example: new evidence supports the original researchers' unexpected conclusions

Dispute is an antonym for support.

How words are described

best best dispute best support
public public dispute public support
considerable considerable dispute considerable support
legal legal dispute legal support
Other adjectives: strong, constant, personal, major, political, domestic, international, magical.

Common collocations

love dispute love support love
claim dispute claim support claim
idea dispute idea support idea
argument dispute argument support argument
Other words: use, decision, story, existence, claims.

Both words in one sentence

  • It's not automatic though, and opportunity is given to site users to respond to/discuss the reasons given for the cutlisting, either in dispute or support of them.
  • Video Game / Heroes of the Storm As support for the title grew, it was renamed as Blizzard Dota, but this had to be abandoned due to trademark dispute from Valve Software (who are producing DotA 2) and was eventually replaced with the current title.
  • In the midst of a certain ugly and rather scandalous dispute between CBS and Time Warner Cable, TWC's biggest competitors voiced their support for TWC against CBS's underhanded and consumer-unfriendly anti-TWC tactics.
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