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quarrel
1[ kwawr-uhl, kwor- ]
noun
- an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
Synonyms: fight, difference, controversy, contention, argument
- a cause of dispute, complaint, or hostile feeling:
She has no quarrel with her present salary.
quarrel
1/ ˈkwɒrəl /
noun
- an arrow having a four-edged head, fired from a crossbow
- a small square or diamond-shaped pane of glass, usually one of many in a fixed or casement window and framed with lead
quarrel
2/ ˈkwɒrəl /
noun
- an angry disagreement; argument
- a cause of disagreement or dispute; grievance
verb
- to engage in a disagreement or dispute; argue
- to find fault; complain
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Derived Forms
- ˈquarreller, noun
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Other Words From
- quarrel·er noun
- quarrel·ing·ly adverb
- un·quarrel·ing adjective
- un·quarrel·ling adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of quarrel1
Origin of quarrel2
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Word History and Origins
Origin of quarrel1
Origin of quarrel2
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
Many of the Djiboutian troops come from parts of the impoverished country where quarrels are often settled with fists, rocks or shards of glass, and some have the scars to prove it.
After the quarrel, Tinterova allegedly went for a walk at night along a lonely road in the rural countryside.
The report also claims that some people believed they were lovers and having a lover’s quarrel in the elevator.
Others wondered if the two had been sweet on each other and had a sort of lovers’ quarrel.
In May 2018, however, the statue suddenly became the center of a quarrel that went far beyond local sensibilities.
Their quarrel is with more recently formed verbs like incentivize.
When quiet, he realized that the quarrel was a metaphor for the Arab-Israeli conflict.
For whenever I did so I was always reminded of that unfortunate quarrel.
I share their concern about government, but this is not a quarrel with our government in Washington.
You can quarrel with that decision in all sorts of ways, but it is the worker, not the company, who gets most of the benefit.
The consequence of this quarrel was that, early in 1794, he found himself accused as a ci-devant noble.
But he would not quarrel with so old a man as Monsieur Farival, so he quarreled with Mariequita.
Villerias had another quarrel of this sort with the latter, after which they were quite friendly.
Suppose a quarrel breaks out in a branch association and two parties are formed, which of them is entitled to the property?
Sometimes a quarrel springs up in one of these associations, the members divide, who shall have the property?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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