skirmish :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (3)

brush, encounter, clash

n. a minor short-term fight

Verbs (1)

engage in a skirmish

v. engage in a skirmish

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (0)

Fuzzynyms (26)

fight, bout

n. a boxing or wrestling match; "the fight was on television last night"

struggle, battle, conflict

n. an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"

engagement, fight, battle

n. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"

engagement, involvement, participation

n. the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"

affray, altercation, fracas

n. noisy quarrel

grumble, grumbling, rumble, rumbling

n. a loud low dull continuous noise; "they heard the rumbling of thunder"

hostilities, war, hot war, state of war

n. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring"

hostility, antagonism, enmity

n. a state of deep-seated ill-will

contest

n. a struggle between rivals

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Antonyms (0)

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