An 18-year-old male is in hospital after an altercation at a party last night.
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Altercation
//ˌɔːltəˈkeɪʃn̩//
Synonyms for "altercation" (119 found)
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Closest matches (24)
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Related words (59)
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Translations
151 translations across 47 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀντίρρησις noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Arabic
3 entries- طوشة noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- نِزَاع noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- هَوْشَة noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Aramaic
3 entries- ܚܪܒܐ noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- ܩܐܪܣܐ noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- ܩܪܒܐ noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- dava noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Bengali
2 entries- বাহাস noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- বিবাদ noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Bulgarian
1 entries- спор noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Catalan
2 entries- altercació noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- altercat noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 審判 /审判 noun (countable: act of posing questions to, and obtaining answers from, a witness in a court of law)
- 爭吵 /争吵 noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- 爭吵 /争吵 noun (uncountable: angry or heated disputation)
Czech
3 entries- hádka noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- svár noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- váda noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Dalmatian
1 entries- aplich noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Danish
1 entries- skænderi noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Dutch
3 entries- dispuut noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- schermutseling noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- woordenwisseling noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Egyptian
1 entries- ḏꜥ noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Finnish
4 entries- jupakka noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- jupakka noun (uncountable: angry or heated disputation)
- kiista noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- kiista noun (uncountable: angry or heated disputation)
French
3 entries- altercation noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- dispute noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- empoignade noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
German
4 entries- Auseinandersetzung noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- Disput noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- Kontroverse noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- Streit noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Greek
1 entries- διαπληκτισμός noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Hindi
4 entries- चपक़ुलश noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- झगड़ा noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- बिबाद noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- रार noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Hungarian
1 entries- vita noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Icelandic
4 entries- bræta noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- deila noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- orðahnippingar noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- orðakast noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Italian
4 entries- altercazione noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- alterco noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- battibuglio noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- bisticciamento noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Jamaican Creole
2 entries- argument noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- cass cass noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Ladino
1 entries- sayran noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Latin
4 entries- altercātiō noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- certatus noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- iūrgium noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- līs noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Macedonian
4 entries- ка́вга noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- кара́ница noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- пре́пирка noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- распра́вија noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Middle English
2 entries- altercacioun noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- noyse noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Māori
2 entries- kekeritanga noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- waunga noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- cedel noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- gengeşe noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- qerqeşe noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- disputt noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- krangel noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- ordveksling noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- نزاع noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- پرخاش noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- چكیش noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Pashto
1 entries- مجادله noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Persian
1 entries- مشاجره noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Polish
4 entries- alterkacja noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- kłótnia noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- sprzeczka noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- spór noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Portuguese
4 entries- altercação noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- argumento noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- briga noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- disputa noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Romanian
1 entries- altercație noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Russian
4 entries- ди́спут noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- перебра́нка noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- препира́тельство noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- разбо́рка noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- nȅsporazum noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- prèpīrka noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- spȍr noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- súkob noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Sicilian
1 entries- sciarra noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Slovak
4 entries- hádka noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- svár noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- zvada noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- škriepka noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Spanish
4 entries- alteración noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- altercación noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- altercado noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- disensión noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Swedish
2 entries- gräl noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- ordväxling noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Tagalog
1 entries- basag-ulo noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Tamil
2 entries- கலகம் noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- தகராறு noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Telugu
1 entries- కజ్జా noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Ukrainian
2 entries- перепа́лка noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- сва́рка noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Urdu
4 entries- بباد noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- جھگڑا noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- رار noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- چَپْقُلَش noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Welsh
4 entries- cweryl noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- cynnen noun (uncountable: angry or heated disputation)
- ffrae noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
- ffrwgwd noun (countable: angry or heated dispute)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Tom had an altercation with a woman who tried to take his parking space.
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The chief of police told reporters that both a member of the public and a police officer had been injured in last night's altercation.
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Dan started a physical altercation with Matt.
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