altercation

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.

Examples

• The shooting resulted from an altercation between two armed intoxicated men.
• to get into an altercation over (something)

Synonyms

affray, fracas, 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, hassle, quarrel, quibble, row, spat, squabble, tangle, threap, tiff, wrangle

Related Words

altercate, altercative, altercator