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altercate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb altercate has 1 sense
- altercate(v = verb.communication) argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap - have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" is one way to argue, contend, debate, fence
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
altercate, v. i. [L. altercatus, p. p. of altercare, altercari, fr. alter another. See Alter.].
To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
altercate, v.intr. (often foll. by with) dispute hotly; wrangle.
Derivative
altercation n.
Etymology
L altercari altercat-
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