All 4 Uses
altercation
in
The Red Badge of Courage
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- They had a rapid altercation, in which they fastened upon each other various strange epithets.†
Chpt 1 *
- There was a mighty altercation.†
Chpt 12
- The guns in the rear, aroused and enraged by shells that had been thrown burr-like at them, suddenly involved themselves in a hideous altercation with another band of guns.†
Chpt 16
- They were surrounded by the noises of the monstrous altercation between the two armies.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(altercation) a noisy argument, confrontation, or fight
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)