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)
WordNet
v. have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]
[also: quarrelling, quarrelled]
n. an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" [syn: wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup]
an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges
[also: quarrelling, quarrelled]
See quarrel
Usage examples of "quarrelled".
Two strangers had come into this peaceful town and had absolutely quarrelled with sticks and whips in the street, calling each other opprobrious names.
He came here and quarrelled with the other man in my house, or rather down at Richmond, and made a fool of himself, and then quarrelled with his wife and took her away.
And then the article went on to declare that either the Prime Minister had quarrelled with all his colleagues, or else that all his colleagues had quarrelled with the Prime Minister.
Since that there had been some correspondence, and a feeling had prevailed that the woman was not to be quarrelled with forever.
He had such a calm, sociable character that during the whole period of his imprisonment he never quarrelled with anyone.
When he quarrelled with the convicts he reproached them with being thieves, and exhorted them in all sincerity to steal no more.
Sirotkin neither drank nor played, and scarcely ever quarrelled with other convicts.
He was a huge fat man, the same who, on the day of my arrival at washing time, had quarrelled with one of his companions about the water, and had ventured to compare him to some sort of bird.
He scarcely ever quarrelled, but he was friendly towards very few, except, perhaps, Sirotkin, and then only when he had need of him.
Luka often quarrelled with him in a neighbourly way, and treated him with a haughtiness which, thanks to his good nature, Kobylin did not notice in the least.
They had never quarrelled with him, however, and Gavrilka had so far paid no attention whatsoever to them.
After the decease of Christopher, his eldest son, the two surviving brothers quarrelled with each other, and conspired against their father.
The Pargunese and Kostandanyans have quarrelled with Tsaians and Lyonyans as long as any human remembers.
Gird trod gingerly around each other, much like lovers who have quarrelled and want to make up.
Luap realized, she had not quarrelled with the Rose-age in a long time.