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Definition of altercation : Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.

Synonyms:

debate, disturbance, polemic, wrangle, word, tiff, affray, tangle, argument, ruffle, fray, difficulty, fight, controversy, quarrel, run-in, dispute, study atquarrel, fracas, bicker, rhubarb, spat

disagreement, dissonance, dissension, harshness, contention, clamor, feud, collision, clash, row, discord, difference, brawl, hassle, squabble, squall, discordancy, friction, animosity, disharmony, antagonism, hubbub, hostility, imbroglio, raucousness, dissidence, riot, commotion, tension, strife, cacophony, conflict, enmity, warfare, antipathy

Usage examples:

• They had had an altercation before she went to the meeting, and he supposed she had talked herself into another rage while there. - "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903", Lucy Maud Montgomery.
• He paid no attention to the altercation which was in progress between the waiter and the man at the other end of the dingy room. - "The Man Upstairs and Other Stories", P. G. Wodehouse.
• In the line of priests an altercation arose as to who should have first place. - "The Return of Tarzan", Edgar Rice Burroughs.