altercation

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  1. noun A vehement quarrel.

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  • A person was transported to a local hospital after apparently being shot by a BART police officer during the altercation, according to Allison, who did not have any information about the condition of the victim. —  KCBS Bay Area News
  • Two other men involved in the altercation were treated in hospital and released. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • After the altercation, a club patron asked Williams if he was okay. —  VIBE Magazine
  • The BART officer fatally shot Grant in the back after he and some friends were pulled from a train car following a report of an altercation, according to a BART statement. —  CNN.com
  • A couple of days after the altercation, the police sent the case to the DA, but it was returned on the grounds that there was not enough evidence to sustain either claim. —  Softpedia News - Global
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  1. from Middle English altercation, from Old French altercation, from Latin altercatio(n-), a dispute, from altercari, past participle altercatus, dispute: see altercate.
 

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