Past tense of quarrel; to have a heated argument or disagreement with someone.
From Old French 'querele' meaning complaint or dispute, derived from Latin 'querella.' The word evolved to mean a verbal fight or angry disagreement between people.
The word 'quarrel' originally meant a formal complaint brought to court, but over centuries it shifted to mean any angry argument—showing how language softens when arguments become less formal and more everyday.
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