altercate vs fall out

altercate and fall out both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
altercate	No	No	Yes	No
fall out	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, fall out is a hyponym of altercate; that is, fall out is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than altercate:

Other hyponyms of altercate include brawl, wrangle, spat, polemicise, polemicize, polemise, polemize.

altercate (verb)	fall out (verb)
have a disagreement over something	come to pass
	have a breach in relations
	drop out
	leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation
	come as a logical consequence; follow logically