altercation.
An angry or heated dispute.
Meaning & usage
An angry or heated dispute.
to get into an altercation over (something)
The shooting resulted from an altercation between two armed intoxicated men.
An act of posing questions to, and obtaining answers from, a witness in a court of law.
Angry or heated disputation.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin altercātiō. Cognates * Catalan altercació * Italian altercazione * Occitan altercatio, altercassion * Portuguese altercação * Spanish altercación
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