Altercation: Definition and part of speech

Altercation

  1. n. Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Alter: Definition and part of speech

Alter

  1. v. i. To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.
  2. v. t. To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
  3. v. t. To agitate; to affect mentally.
  4. v. t. To geld.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.