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to altercate
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to have a serious and heated argument with someone, often involving raised voices
Intransitive: to altercate | to altercate about sth | to altercate over sth
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
altercate
3rd person singular
altercates
Present participle
altercating
Past simple
altercated
Past participle
altercated
Examples
The siblings would often altercate over who got control of the TV remote.
Lexical Tree
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