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Meanings of altercation in English

Portuguese
altercação
Catalan
avalot
Spanish
altercado

Noisy quarrel.

altercação
Synonyms
Examples for "fracas"
Examples for "fracas"
1
Four Mykonos officers sustained slight injuries in the fracas, the authorities said.
The South African
2
The Spartan frowned; there was no way the fracas would go unnoticed.
The Flood
3
The other had been gouged out years ago in a drunken fracas.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
4
The fop ran behind a tree, to be safe from the fracas.
An Enemy to the King / From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of t...
5
Then there has been a great fracas between the court-martial and Willes.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
1
The Metropolitan Police said he had been arrested on suspicion of affray.
BBC
2
He had interfered in an affray in a cafe and been stabbed.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
3
How the lamentable affray came about could not be explained to me.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
4
He had gone by himself one day some time after the affray.
The secret river
5
In the affray that succeeded, it was said that he was killed.
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
Usage of altercation in English
1
He was immediately flattened and another altercation took place among several players.
The Irish Times
2
And so the altercation in the night went on, over the irremediable.
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
3
Last year, rapper Kanye West was in an altercation with a photographer.
Reuters
4
He believes this was the result of the altercation with his coworker.
Ebony
5
Then the sound of the altercation overhead smote him too with alarm.
The Coryston Family / A Novel
6
He was taken to a hospital for injuries sustained in the altercation.
Ebony
7
She had an altercation with a passerby not too far from here.
Dolly departed
8
An altercation with the Second Selectman's son and some of his friends.
Under the dome: a novel
9
Observing the altercation his men had gathered about to watch the outcome.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst o...
10
Rachel snapped, now taking a horrid, perverse pleasure in the perilous altercation.
The Price of Love
11
The apparent altercation occurred in a complex close to the Union Buildings.
The South African
12
Schulte said the only person hurt in the altercation was Pilar Sanders.
Reuters
13
As Villon's voice rose the altercation attracted the attention of the revellers.
If I Were King
14
Account of a matrimonial altercation, and of the arrival of Lady Olivia.
The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)
15
I wished also to avoid the self-mortification which must ensue from altercation.
Mark Rutherford's Deliverance
16
On the 18th, Rosette was overheard in furious altercation with Ben Zoof.
Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space
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Altercation across language varieties
South Africa
Common
Australia
Common
Ireland
Less common
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