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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
altercation \al`terca"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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
their whole life was little else than a
perpetual wrangling and altercation. --hakewill.
1913 webster
see also:
altercation dispute wrangle
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
altercation
n : noisy quarrel syn: affray, fracas
see also:
affray fracas
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
58 moby thesaurus words for "altercation":
kilkenny cats, 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, 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
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