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brawl

(brôl)

1. A noisy quarrel or fight.

2. Slang A loud party.

intr.v. brawled, brawl·ing, brawls

To quarrel or fight noisily.

[Middle English braul, from braullen, to quarrel.]

brawl′er n.

brawl′ing·ly adv.

Synonyms: brawl, donnybrook, fracas, fray¹, free-for-all, melee, scrap², scrape, scuffle¹
These nouns denote a noisy, disorderly, and often violent quarrel or fight: a barroom brawl; a vicious legal donnybrook; a fracas among prison inmates; eager for the fray; a free-for-all in the schoolyard; police plunging into the melee; a scrap between opposing players; a scrape that took place at the mall; a scuffle that broke out in the courtroom.

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brawl

(brɔːl)

1. a loud disagreement or fight

2. slang US an uproarious party

vb (intr)

3. to quarrel or fight noisily; squabble

4. (esp of water) to flow noisily

[C14: probably related to Dutch brallen to boast, behave aggressively]

ˈbrawler n

ˈbrawling n, adj

brawl

(brɔːl)

(Dancing) a dance: the English version of the branle

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brawl

(brɔl)
n.

1. a noisy fight or quarrel, esp. in a public place.

2. a bubbling or roaring noise; clamor.

3. Slang. a large, noisy party.

v.i.

4. to fight or quarrel angrily and noisily; wrangle.

5. to make a bubbling or roaring noise, as water flowing over a rocky bed.

[1350–1400; Middle English: to raise a clamor]

brawl′er, n.

brawl′y, adj.

brawl

Past participle: brawled
Gerund: brawling

Imperative
brawl
brawl

Present
I brawl
you brawl
he/she/it brawls
we brawl
you brawl
they brawl

Preterite
I brawled
you brawled
he/she/it brawled
we brawled
you brawled
they brawled

Present Continuous
I am brawling
you are brawling
he/she/it is brawling
we are brawling
you are brawling
they are brawling

Present Perfect
I have brawled
you have brawled
he/she/it has brawled
we have brawled
you have brawled
they have brawled

Past Continuous
I was brawling
you were brawling
he/she/it was brawling
we were brawling
you were brawling
they were brawling

Past Perfect
I had brawled
you had brawled
he/she/it had brawled
we had brawled
you had brawled
they had brawled

Future
I will brawl
you will brawl
he/she/it will brawl
we will brawl
you will brawl
they will brawl

Future Perfect
I will have brawled
you will have brawled
he/she/it will have brawled
we will have brawled
you will have brawled
they will have brawled

Future Continuous
I will be brawling
you will be brawling
he/she/it will be brawling
we will be brawling
you will be brawling
they will be brawling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been brawling
you have been brawling
he/she/it has been brawling
we have been brawling
you have been brawling
they have been brawling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been brawling
you will have been brawling
he/she/it will have been brawling
we will have been brawling
you will have been brawling
they will have been brawling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been brawling
you had been brawling
he/she/it had been brawling
we had been brawling
you had been brawling
they had been brawling

Conditional
I would brawl
you would brawl
he/she/it would brawl
we would brawl
you would brawl
they would brawl

Past Conditional
I would have brawled
you would have brawled
he/she/it would have brawled
we would have brawled
you would have brawled
they would have brawled

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Noun	1.	brawl - an uproarious party do, bash party - an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment; "he planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day"
	2.	brawl - a noisy fight in a crowd free-for-all fighting, combat, fight, scrap - the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
Verb	1.	brawl - to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street" wrangle altercate, argufy, quarrel, scrap, dispute - have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"

brawl

noun

1. fight, battle, row (informal), clash, disorder, scrap (informal), fray, squabble, wrangle, skirmish, scuffle, punch-up (Brit. informal), free-for-all (informal), fracas, altercation, rumpus, broil, tumult, affray (Law), shindig (informal), donnybrook, ruckus (informal), scrimmage, shindy (informal), bagarre (French), melee or mêlée He had been in a drunken street brawl.

verb

1. fight, battle, scrap (informal), wrestle, wrangle, tussle, scuffle, go at it hammer and tongs, fight like Kilkenny cats, altercate Gangs of youths brawled in the street

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brawl

noun

A quarrel, fight, or disturbance marked by very noisy, disorderly, and often violent behavior:

affray, broil, donnybrook, fray, free-for-all, melee, riot, row, ruction, tumult.

Informal: fracas.

Slang: rumble.

verb

To quarrel noisily:

broil, caterwaul, row, wrangle.

Translations

شغب، شجاريتشاجر بضجيج، يتعارك

rvačkarvát se

skænderislagsmålslås

krakeelen Lärm lärmen schlägern Krakeel

bagarre

civakodiklármás veszekedés

áflogslást

azzuffarsi baccagliare rissa

kelti skandaląmuštismuštynės

rīkot tračusskandalētiesskandālstracis

klammeri lage spetakkel slåss støyende slagsmål

чертить

arbedegürültülü patırtılı kavga etmekhırgüryumruk yumruğa kavga

吵架打架

brawl

[brɔːl]

A. N → pelea f, reyerta f

B. VI → pelear, pegarse

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

brawl

[ˈbrɔːl]

n [drunken] → rixe f, bagarre f

vi → se bagarrer

brawl

vi → sich schlagen

n → Schlägerei f

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brawl

[brɔːl]

1. n → rissa

2. vi → azzuffarsi

brawl

(broːl) noun

a noisy quarrel or physical fight. The police were called out to a brawl in the street.

verb

to fight noisily.

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There was no money used in this traffic, and, after a time, all payment in spirituous liquors was prohibited, in consequence of the frantic and frightful excesses and bloody brawls which they were apt to occasion.

Scenes of drunkeness, brutality, and brawl were the consequence, in the Indian villages and around the trading houses; while bloody feuds took place between rival trading parties when they happened to encounter each other in the lawless depths of the wilderness.

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"General," I replied with that calmness which he never could abide, "one cannot arrest a man for brawling until he has brawled. I have not so much as begun my explanations to the Baron, and you are altogether ignorant as to the form and time which my intended procedure is likely to assume.

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The coarse brawl, the loathsome den, the crude violence of disordered life, the very vileness of thief and outcast, were more vivid, in their intense actuality of impression, than all the gracious shapes of art, the dreamy shadows of song.

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Retreat of the Blackfeet Fontenelle's camp in danger Captain Bonneville and the Blackfeet Free trappers Their character, habits, dress, equipments, horses Game fellows of the mountains Their visit to the camp Good fellowship and good cheer A carouse A swagger, a brawl, and a reconciliation

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Woman and 11 men throw punches and kicks in 4am mass brawl outside takeaway; The mobile phone vision shows dozens of bewildered onlookers watching as the gang throw punches and kick one another

Kuwait has been following a strict policy of zero tolerance towards any foreigners disrupting public order in public places or involved in street fights or in shopping complex brawls.

Kuwait to deport 18 expats over public brawl

"People should not publish any news on brawls or such issues as the police is the sole authority to reveal those accidents."

Police deny rumours on sword brawl

Attracting people to the races is hard enough, without having ugly brawls to put them off.

Racecourse bosses beef up their security

After a series of pub brawls recently, the Gurgaon Police had requested the excise department to restrict the timings of pubs to 12 at night.