altercation
Meanings
Plural: altercations
Noun
- noisy quarrel
- An angry or heated dispute.
- An act of posing questions to, and obtaining answers from, a witness in a court of law.
- Angry or heated disputation.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin altercātiō.
Cognates
* Catalan altercació
* Italian altercazione
* Occitan altercatio, altercassion
* Portuguese altercação
* Spanish altercación
Synonyms
affray, altercation, argument, argy-bargy, barney, bawl out, blue, bobbery, brawl, clash, conflict, controversy, debate, difference, ding-dong, disagreement, discordance, disharmony, disputation, dispute, dissonance, disunion, dustup, face-off, falling out, feud, fight, flite, fracas, hassle, quarrel, quibble, row, spat, squabble, tangle, threap, tiff, wrangle
Scrabble Score: 13
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