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Verb: quarrel (quarrelled,quarrelling, or [US] quarreled,quarreling)  kwor-ul or kwó-rul [N. Amer], kwó-rul [Brit]
  1. Have a disagreement over something
    "We quarrelled over the question as to who discovered America";
    - dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate, row[2]
Noun: quarrel  kwor-ul or kwó-rul [N. Amer], kwó-rul [Brit]
  1. An angry dispute
    "they had a quarrel";
    - wrangle, row[2], words, run-in [informal], dustup [informal], dust-up, blue [Austral, NZ, informal], bust-up [informal], slanging match [Brit, informal], ding-dong [Brit, informal], barney [Brit, informal]
     
  2. An arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges

Derived forms: quarrelled, quarrelling, quarreled, quarrels

Type of: argue, arrow, conflict, contend, debate, difference, difference of opinion, dispute, fence

Encyclopedia: Quarrel