Synonyms of the word

spat

• v. simple past tense and past participle of spit.
• n. The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
• n. A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To spawn. Used of shellfish as above.
• n. A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
• n. (automotive) (UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a…
• n. a brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
• v. to quarrel or argue briefly.
• n. A light blow with something flat.
• v. (transitive and intransitive) To strike with a spattering sound.
• v. (US, dialect) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
• n. An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.

acclaim

• v. (archaic, transitive) To shout; to call out.
• v. (intransitive) To shout approval; to express great approval.
• v. (transitive, rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To claim.
• v. (transitive) To declare by acclamations.
• v. (Canada, politics) To elect to an office by having no opposition.
• n. (poetic) An acclamation; a shout of applause.
• n. (obsolete) A claim.

altercate

• v. (transitive) To argue, quarrel or wrangle with someone.

applaud

• n. (obsolete) Applause; applauding.
• n. (obsolete) Plaudit.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To praise, or express approval for something or someone.

argufy

• v. to argue without any aim; to dispute; wrangle; to disagree.

attach

• v. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
• v. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
• v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
• v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral…
• v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
• v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

bicker

• v. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
• v. To move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, of a flame).
• v. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
• n. A skirmish; an encounter.
• n. (Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
• n. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
• n. (Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.

bickering

• n. Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.
• v. present participle of bicker.

clap

• n. The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
• n. The explosive sound of thunder.
• n. Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.
• n. A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.
• n. A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
• n. (falconry) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
• n. (Yorkshire) A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground).
• v. To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.
• v. To applaud.
• v. To slap with the hand in a jovial manner.
• v. To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound.
• v. To come together suddenly with noise.
• v. To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together).
• v. To set or put, usually in haste.
• v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To shoot (somebody) with a gun.
• n. (slang, with "the") Gonorrhea.

dispute

• n. An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
• n. Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial…
• v. (intransitive) To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
• v. (transitive) To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
• v. To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question;…
• v. To strive or contend about; to contest.
• v. (obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.

dustup

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

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

fuss

• n. (countable or uncountable) Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.
• n. A complaint or noise; a scene.
• n. An exhibition of affection or admiration.
• v. (intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
• v. (intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust; to worry about something.
• v. (intransitive, especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured.
• v. (intransitive, with over) To show affection for, especially animals.
• v. (transitive) To pet.

gaiter

• n. A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep; see spats.
• n. A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
• n. Part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop.
• v. To dress with gaiters.

gesticulate

• v. (intransitive) To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.
• v. (transitive) To say or express through gestures.

gesture

• n. A motion of the limbs or body, especially one made to emphasize speech.
• n. An act or a remark made as a formality or as a sign of attitude.
• n. (obsolete) The manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
• v. (intransitive) To make a gesture or gestures.
• v. (transitive) To express something by a gesture or gestures.
• v. (transitive) To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

legging

• n. A covering, usually of leather, worn from knee to ankle.
• n. Tight fitting leg coverings worn, for example, to gym.
• n. One of the legs of a pair of trousers.
• n. The process of putting a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
• v. present participle of leg.

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

offspring

• n. A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
• n. All a person's descendants, including further generations.
• n. An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.
• n. (figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts.
• n. (computing) A process launched by another process.

pettifoggery

• n. The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.

precipitate

• v. (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
• v. (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
• v. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
• v. (intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
• v. (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet,…
• v. (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
• adj. headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
• adj. Very steep; precipitous.
• adj. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
• adj. Moving with excessive speed or haste.
• adj. Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
• n. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
• n. (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

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.

scrap

• n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
• n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
• n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
• n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
• v. (transitive) To discard.
• v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
• v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
• n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
• v. to fight.

spawn

• v. (transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
• v. (transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
• v. (transitive) To bring forth in general.
• v. (transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
• v. (transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
• v. (intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
• v. (intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
• v. (ergative, video games, of a character or object) (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain…
• n. The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
• n. Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
• n. (by extension, sometimes derogatory) Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.
• n. (horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
• n. (video games) The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.

squabble

• n. A minor fight or argument as between children, for example.
• v. (intransitive) To participate in a minor fight or argument.
• v. (transitive, printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.

strike

• v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
• v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
• v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
• v. To touch; to act by appulse.
• v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
• v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
• v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
• v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
• v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
• v. To make and ratify.
• v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
• v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
• v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
• v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
• v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
• v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
• v. To balance (a ledger or account).
• n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
• n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
• n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
• n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
• n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
• n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
• n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
• n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
• n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
• n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
• n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
• n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
• n. The discovery of a source of something.
• n. A strike plate.

tiff

• n. A small argument; a petty quarrel.
• n. Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
• v. (intransitive) To quarrel.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To deck out; to dress.

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.

young

• adj. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
• adj. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
• adj. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
• adj. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
• adj. (of a decade of life) Early.
• adj. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
• adj. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
• adj. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
• n. People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.
• n. Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
• n. (rare, possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
• v. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
• v. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
• v. (geology) To exhibit younging.