Usually means: Heated argument or disagreement, conflict.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. altercation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. altercation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. altercation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. altercation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. altercation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Altercation, altercation: Wordnik
  7. altercation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. altercation: Wiktionary
  9. altercation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. altercation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. altercation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Altercation, altercation: Dictionary.com
  13. altercation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. altercation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Altercation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Altercation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. altercation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. altercation: Rhymezone
  19. altercation, altercation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. altercation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. altercation: Free Dictionary
  22. altercation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. altercation: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. altercation: Legal dictionary

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  1. altercation: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. altercation: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (countable) An angry or heated dispute.
▸ noun:  (countable, law, historical) An act of posing questions to, and obtaining answers from, a witness in a court of law.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Angry or heated disputation.

Similar:
fracas, affray, controversy, clash, fray, conflict, pitched battle, wrangle, war of words, battleground, more...

Opposite:
agreement, settlement, truce

Types:
argument, quarrel, dispute, conflict, scuffle, brawl, fracas, melee, more...

Phrases:
violent altercation, physical altercation, noisy altercation, more...

Adjectives:
violent, much, angry, personal, little, long, physical, sharp, warm, serious, slight

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Similar:
fracas, affray, controversy, clash, fray, conflict, pitched battle, wrangle, war of words, battleground, more...

Opposite:
agreement, settlement, truce

Types:
argument, quarrel, dispute, conflict, scuffle, brawl, fracas, melee, more...

Phrases:
violent altercation, physical altercation, noisy altercation, more...

Adjectives:
violent, much, angry, personal, little, long, physical, sharp, warm, serious, slight

Colors:
    red,     black,     gray,     dark blue,     maroon, more...



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