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ALTERCATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have a disagreement over something

Example:

These two fellows are always scrapping over something

Synonyms:

altercate; argufy; dispute; quarrel; scrap

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "altercate" is one way to...):

argue; contend; debate; fence (have an argument about something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "altercate"):

brawl; wrangle (to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively)

spat (engage in a brief and petty quarrel)

polemicise; polemicize; polemise; polemize (engage in a controversy)

fall out (have a breach in relations)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

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