Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb altercate

1 sense of altercate

Sense 1
quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate -- (have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something")
       => argue, contend, debate, fence -- (have an argument about something)