quarrel
/ˈkwɔɹəl/ verb B2- To argue fiercely; to contend; to squabble; to cease to be on friendly terms, to fall out.
- To find fault; to cavil. · to quarrel with one’s lot
- To argue or squabble with (someone).
Plural quarrel · He/she/it quarrels · Past quarreled · Past participle quarreled · -ing form quarreling
Verb forms
- Base form
- quarrel
- He/she/it
- quarrels
- Past
- quarreled
- Past participle
- quarreled
- -ing form
- quarreling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Flutter and quarrel
“I don’t think they play at all fairly,” Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, “and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can’t hear oneself speak—and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them—and you’ve no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there’s the arch I’ve got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground—and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!”
Ruby Gillis and Emma White, who had quarreled over a point of precedence in their platform seats, no longer sat at the same desk, and a promising friendship of three years was broken up.
“We had a quarrel.
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