altercation
Meaning
Noun
- Heated or angry dispute
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Origin
- Borrowed as Middle English altercacioun from Anglo-Norman altercacione, altercacioun, from Middle French altercacion, altercation (altercation in modern French); ultimately from Latin altercātiō.
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