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quarrel

 
 
/ˈkwɒrəl/ verb [I] (present participle UK quarrelling, past tense and past participle quarrelled, present participle US quarreling, past tense and past participle quarreled)

Definition

to have an argument with someone: She'd been quarrelling with her mother all morning.
(Definition of quarrel verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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