The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quarrel \Quar"rel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quarreledor Quarrelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quarreling or Quarrelling.]
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To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.
Our people quarrel with obedience.
--Shak.But some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed.
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To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.
Beasts called sociable quarrel in hunger and lust.
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To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake.
--Roscommon.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: quarrel)
Usage examples of "quarreled".
On returning from a season in Prussia, he had quarreled with Duke Otto of Brunswick and accepted his challenge to combat, which was arranged under French auspices.
Dunmow in Essex after a year of marriage and truthfully swear that they never quarreled and did not regret the marriage and would do it over again if given the chance.
He quarreled with Catherine of Siena over this issue, and when she died of self-willed privation shortly afterward in 1380, he lost what had been the warmest voice in his support.
In the meantime, madness shadowed Pope Urban as he quarreled fatally with Charles of Durazzo and was driven from Naples.
When the combatants offered each other peace, the gods whispered lies and played tricks until they quarreled and fought again.
Then he related how the rabbit, dining at his house, had insulted and quarreled with his children, from whose clutches he had had much trouble to save him.
The sons of these two kings, having quarreled for a trifle, met in duel soon after, and the Langobardian prince, having slain his companion, took possession of his arms, with which he proudly returned home.
Charlemagne, having quarreled with the Duke of Genoa, proposed that each should send a champion to fight in his name.
The fruit, however, was soon exhausted, and, after untold exertions, Huon made his way over the mountains to a fertile valley, the retreat of Titania, queen of the fairies, who had quarreled with Oberon, and who was waiting here until recalled to fairyland.
Brutus then coasted along the shores of the kingdom of Aquitaine and up the Loire, where his men quarreled with the inhabitants.
Suger had with difficulty quenched seditious plots among the barons, including one to set Louis aside in favor of his brother Robert, Count of Dreux, with whom he had quarreled in Syria.
A couple of times, however, he quarreled bitterly with Lizaveta Prokofyevna, told her that she was a despot and that he would not set foot in the house again.
Lizaveta Prokofyevna became angry at everything and quarreled with everyone, naturally without mentioning the prince as the motive of the quarrel.
The chiefest and most interesting thing was that Aglaya had quarreled with her family over Ganya.
Aglaya might get angry, and that she was probably now sitting with a book on the green bench, which she had already spoken of three days ago and over which she had almost quarreled with Prince Shch.