Definition of Quarrel

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Quarrel

An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.

Any small square or quadrangular member

A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally.

A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square.

A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.

A glazier's diamond.

A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.

A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.

Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.

Earnest desire or longing.

To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.

To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.

To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.

To quarrel with.

To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.

One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.

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Quarrel Quotations

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

Quarrel Translations

quarrel in Afrikaans is kwessie, rusie maak, rusie, argument
quarrel in Dutch is kwestie, strijd, twist, dispuut
quarrel in French is bagarrer, noise, querelle, algarade, dispute
quarrel in German is Streit, streiten, zanken, zanken, Zank
quarrel in Italian is questione, litigare
quarrel in Latin is iurgium, seditio
quarrel in Norwegian is trette, krangle, krangel

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