Definition of altercate Altercate
al•ter•cate
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What does altercate mean?
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| altercate - have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" | ||
| quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy | ||
| argue, debate, fence, contend present reasons and arguments | ||
| brawl, wrangle to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street" | ||
| spat spawn; "oysters spat" | ||
| polemicise, polemicize, polemise, polemize engage in a controversy; "The two historians polemicized for years" | ||
| fall out have a breach in relations; "We fell out over a trivial question" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- altercate (v. i.)
To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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altercate
al′tėr-kāt, v.i. to dispute or wrangle.—n. Altercā′tion, contention: controversy.—adj. Altercā′tive. [L. altercāri, -catus, to bandy words from one to the other (alter).]
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🔤- altercate, verb, present, 1st person singular of altercate (infinitive).
- altercate, verb (infinitive).
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