quarrel

IPA: kwˈɔrʌɫ

(countable) A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).
(countable) Often preceded by a form of to have: a basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this.
(rare, uncountable) A propensity to quarrel; quarrelsomeness.
(countable, archery, historical) An arrow or bolt for a crossbow or an arbalest (“a late, large type of crossbow”), traditionally with the head square in its cross section.
(countable, architecture) A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window.
(countable, Northern England, architecture) A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively.
(countable, obsolete, rare) A cutting tool or chisel with a diamond- or square-shaped end.
(countable, architecture, obsolete) A small square-shaped opening in window tracery.

(intransitive, also figuratively) To argue fiercely; to contend; to squabble; to cease to be on friendly terms, to fall out.
(intransitive) To find fault; to cavil.
(intransitive, obsolete) Followed by at: to disagree with; to take offence.
(transitive, obsolete except Scotland) To argue or squabble with (someone).

Examples of "quarrel" in Sentences

This is the repeat of the James Irvin quarrel for Alexander.
The majority of folks know bigotry when they see it, and this quarrel is pretty ludicrous from the get-go.
“So what I called our quarrel was our actual situation as it appeared after the satisfaction of sensual desire.
"So what I called our quarrel was our actual situation as it appeared after the satisfaction of sensual desire.
But the cause of our quarrel is somewhat unusual, and I can be neither so practical nor so vulgar as to set about making codicils.
Broadly, our quarrel is that of pessimism and optimism, only your pessimism is unconscious, which makes it the more dangerous to yourself.
My quarrel is with the implication in the how-to books market that one can merely read them to find the magic secret for writing well enough to publish.
Edgar risks his reason up in quarrel with Oswald, as he has risked it in assisting Gloucester after a duke's defamation by Cornwall, Goneril, Regan as good as Edmund.