English verb: altercate | |||
1. | altercate (communication) have a disagreement over something | ||
Samples | We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America. These two fellows are always scrapping over something. | ||
Synonyms | argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | argue, contend, debate, fence | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | brawl, fall out, polemicise, polemicize, polemise, polemize, spat, wrangle | ||