ALTERCATE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does altercate mean? 

• ALTERCATE (verb)
  The verb ALTERCATE has 1 sense:

1. have a disagreement over something

  Familiarity information: ALTERCATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALTERCATE (verb)

Meaning:

Have a disagreement over something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

altercate; argufy; quarrel; dispute; scrap

Context examples:

We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America / These two fellows are always scrapping over something

Hypernyms (to "altercate" is one way to...):

argue; contend; debate; fence (have an argument about something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "altercate"):

brawl; wrangle (to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively)

spat (engage in a brief and petty quarrel)

polemicise; polemicize; polemise; polemize (engage in a controversy)

fall out (have a breach in relations)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP