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Altercation

Altercation Meaning & Definition
Altercation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Altercation?

[n] noisy quarrel

Synonyms | Synonyms for Altercation: affray | fracas

Related Terms | Find terms related to Altercation: argument | bicker | bickering | blood feud | brawl | broil | cat-and-dog life | combat | conflict | contention | contentiousness | contest | contestation | controversy | cut and thrust | debate | disputation | dispute | donnybrook | donnybrook fair | embroilment | enmity | falling-out | feud | fight | fighting | fliting | fracas | fuss | hostility | imbroglio | Kilkenny cats | litigation | logomachy | open quarrel | paper war | polemic | quarrel | quarreling | quarrelsomeness | scrapping | sharp words | slanging match | snarl | spat | squabble | squabbling | strife | struggle | tiff | tussle | vendetta | war | war of words | warfare | words | wrangle | wrangling

See Also | batrachomyomachia | dustup | quarrel | row | run-in | words | wrangle

Altercation In Webster's Dictionary

\Al`ter*ca"tion\ (?; 277), n. [F. altercation, fr. L. altercatio.] Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. ``Stormy altercations.'' --Macaulay. Syn: {Altercation}, {Dispute}, {Wrangle}. Usage: The term dispute is in most cases, but not necessarily, applied to a verbal contest; as, a dispute on the lawfulness of war. An altercation is an angry dispute between two parties, involving an interchange of severe language. A wrangle is a confused and noisy altercation. Their whole life was little else than a perpetual wrangling and altercation. --Hakewill.

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