altercation• There was a briefaltercation and someone called the police.• He was engaged in some sort of altercation with the driver.• Well, the only altercation I remember having with him was when I was very little, five or six.• She would run and hide as her parents' altercations so often got out of hand with platescrashing and books thrown.• And perhaps most interestingly, can MacLean stay away from the physicalaltercations that have popped up recently?• The frustration he caused her was the keynote of every one-sidedaltercation.• The altercationconcluded with Bugel tossingBrown from the session.
Originaltercation
(1300-1400)FrenchLatinaltercatio, from altercari“to quarrel”