Synonyms of the word

altercation

• n. Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.

affray

• n. The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
• n. A tumultuous assault or quarrel.
• n. The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
• v. To startle from quiet; to alarm.
• v. To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.

dustup

• n. (informal) A scuffle or fight.
• n. (informal, by extension) An argument or dispute.

fracas

• n. A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.

quarrel

• n. A verbal dispute or heated argument.
• n. A ground of dispute or objection; a complaint.
• n. (obsolete) earnest desire or longing.
• v. (intransitive) To disagree.
• v. (intransitive) To contend, argue fiercely, squabble.
• v. (intransitive) To find fault; to cavil.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To argue or squabble with.
• n. A diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window.
• n. A square tile; quarry tile.
• n. A square-headed arrow for a crossbow.
• n. A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps etc. make the form nearly square.
• n. A four-sided cutting tool or chisel with a diamond-shaped end.

row

• n. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
• n. A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to…
• n. (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
• v. (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
• v. (intransitive) To be moved by oars.
• n. A noisy argument.
• n. A continual loud noise.
• v. (intransitive) to argue noisily.

run-in

• n. An encounter; a scrape or brush, especially one involving trouble or difficulty.
• n. end-phase of a competition.

words

• n. plural of word.
• n. Angry debate or conversation; argument.
• n. Lines in a script for a performance.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of word.

wrangle

• v. (intransitive) To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily.
• v. (transitive) To herd (horses or other livestock); (humorously) to supervise, manage (people).
• v. (transitive) To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
• v. Misspelling of wangle.
• n. An act of wrangling.
• n. An angry dispute.