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. (present participle of quarrel English)
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 "quarrelling".
They refused to rise in his support, and quickly grew to hate his soldiers, who, being of different nations, most of them brigandish soldiers of fortune, began by quarrelling with one another, and ended by plundering the country.
I gave money to one Bengali Sannyasi who was quarrelling with everyone and who used to hate Brahmananda.
He would not risk quarrelling with the Court from which he expects to receive more than 12,000,000 francs.
I see that the men who killed each other about the orthodoxy of the Homoousion were far more sensible than the people who are quarrelling about the Education Act.
Two shrews came across it at the same time and fought, squeaking and shrilling and single-minded, like two crackheads quarrelling over a dime bag.
The pigmies, some of whom were still quarrelling over the pelts of the dead peke and bear, took no notice of them or the fire as the men pelted past.
Scythians travelling in their caravans, the Egyptians tilling their fields, the Phnicians merchandising, the Cilicians robbing and plundering, the Spartans flogging their children, and the Athenians perpetually quarrelling and going to law with one another.
Ford had spent most of his married life either quarrelling with or separated from his wife, but since death he had been canonised as 'poor dear Elmer.
Getæ at war, the Scythians travelling in their caravans, the Egyptians tilling their fields, the Phnicians merchandising, the Cilicians robbing and plundering, the Spartans flogging their children, and the Athenians perpetually quarrelling and going to law with one another.
By the side of these a dropsical man was ridding himself of his protuberance, while four or five canters of the other sex were quarrelling about a child they had stolen in the course of the evening.
There was the necessity of looking after Brooke, and scolding him, and of praising him to Martha, and of dispraising him, and of seeing that he had enough to eat, and of watching whether he smoked in the house, and of quarrelling with him about everything under the sun, which together so employed Miss Stan bury that she satisfied herself with glances at Dorothy which were felt to be full of charges of ingratitude.
But thereupon such quarrelling was begun, From this same granting, in the heaven above, 'Twixt lovely Venus, goddess of all love, And Mars, the iron god armipotent, That Jove toiled hard to make a settlement.
Some frostbites off the Horn, the first hints of scurvy north of the Island, but no real depression, no moping, no sadness, no peevish quarrelling, rarely a cross word.
Kemal's wretched Greek rose over the quarrelling voices of his guards.