altercate (redirected from altercated)

al·ter·cate  (ôltr-kt)

intr.v. al·ter·cat·ed, al·ter·cat·ing, al·ter·cates

To argue or dispute vehemently; wrangle.

---

[Latin altercr, alterct-, to quarrel, from alter, other; see al-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

---

altercate [ˈɔːltəˌkeɪt]

vb

(intr) to argue, esp heatedly; dispute

[from Latin altercārī to quarrel with another, from alter other]

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

altercate - have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" argufy, quarrel, scrap, dispute argue, contend, debate, fence - have an argument about something brawl, wrangle - to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street" spat - engage in a brief and petty quarrel polemicise, polemicize, polemise, polemize - engage in a controversy; "The two historians polemicized for years" fall out - have a breach in relations; "We fell out over a trivial question"