Altercation

Noun

 * 1) Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.

Adjectives for Altercation
monstrous; lurid; bitter; gesticulatory; high-pitched; wordy; domestic; deadly; unprovoked; violent; acrimonious.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From altercation, from  altercatio.

Synonyms

 * dispute, wrangle

Translations

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 * German: heftige Auseinandersetzung
 * Icelandic: bræta, rifrildi,, orðakast, orðahnippingar, orðaskak, orðasenna
 * Spanish: disputa, altercado

Etymology
From altercatio.

Noun

 * 1) Altercation