Altercate: alternatives and connections

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

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To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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To engage in combat for; to strive for.

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That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.

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To quarrel noisily and outrageously.

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imp. of Spit.

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To argue; to debate; to dispute.

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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

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To argue pertinaciously.

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To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wra…

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An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.